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A film about two
women bullfighters and their fight against decades of legal prohibition and
prejudice.
ELLA
ES EL MATADOR - SHE IS THE MATADOR|
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Link to Film Segment - http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=_NU-dQ0PjwY
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For
Spaniards—and for the world—nothing has expressed the country’s traditionally
rigid gender roles more powerfully than the image of the male matador. So
sacred was the bullfighter’s masculinity to Spanish identity that a 1908 law
barred women from the sport.
ELLA ES EL MATADOR (SHE IS THE MATADOR) reveals the surprising history of the
women who made such a law necessary, and offers fascinating profiles of two
female matadors currently in the arena, the acclaimed Maripaz Vega and neophyte
Eva Florencia. These women are gender pioneers by necessity, confronting both
bull and social code. But what emerges in the film as their truest motivation
is their sheer passion—for bullfighting, and in their pursuit of a dream.
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