Cassandro the Exotico!
By Marie Losier
Country: France
Languages: English, Spanish
Original title: Cassandro El Exotico!
Casting: Cassandro
Production year: 2018
Runtime: 01h14
Production company: Tamara Films
After 26 years of spinning dives and flying uppercuts on the ring, Cassandro, the star of the gender-bending cross-dressing Mexican wrestlers known as the Exoticos, is far from retiring. But with dozens of broken bones and metal pins in his body, he must now reinvent himself…
Cannes 2018 – ACID
Festival du Nouveau Cinéma 2018 – Temps Ø
São Paulo IFF 2018 – New Filmmakers Competition
Morelia IFF 2018 – Sexual Diversity Program
Mar del Plata IFF2018 – International Competition – SIGNIS Award
IDFA 2018 – Best of Fests
Gijon IFF – Best Directing of the International Competition Rellumes
Torino Film Festival 2018 – TFFDOC Competition
Hiroshima IFF 2018 – Special Screening
Ambulante Itinerante Documentary Cinema 2019
Tempo Documentary Festival 2019 – International Competition
CPH:Dox 2019 Artists & Auteurs
BFI Flare 2019 – Minds
MIX Milano 209 – Best Documentary Award / MIX LaF Award
CineMigrante Buenos Aires 2019 – Best Film Award
« The double portraits of the filmmaker are exchanges, gifts of friendship that we are privileged to witness. » - Les Cahiers du Cinéma
« What makes this movie fascinating is when the filmmaker brings her camera close to Cassandro's wounds and scars, revealing the exorbitant cost of his flamboyance, bringing him closer, in a way, to Genesis P-Orridge, the transforming hero from her previous feature film, who wanted to go beyond its body. » - Les Inrockuptibles
