Imagine if Rocky was stripped of all its Hollywood sheen and was a much grittier, more realistic story about a hungry, ambitious young man desperate to make a better life for him and his family even if it meant risking his life in the ring. Now replace the boxing ring with a bullfighting ring, Sylvester Stallone with Miguel Romero (an actual bullfighter), and replace the annoying Talia Shire character with a series of nameless 60’s era bouffant-headed barflies. Now you’ve got a movie! Director Francesco Rosi does a fantastic job of not just capturing the art of bullfighting on screen, but of taking the audience as close as they will ever come to the action, but only after they, like his hero, have learned enough about bullfighting to understand and appreciate what they are watching.
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