The Moment of Truth (1965) Il momento della verità
The Moment of Truth (1965)
BDRip | MKV | 720 x 306 | x264 @ 1459 Kbps | 107 min | 1,20 Gb
Audio: Italian AAC 1.0 @ 71 Kbps | Subs: English (embedded)
Genre: Drama
BDRip | MKV | 720 x 306 | x264 @ 1459 Kbps | 107 min | 1,20 Gb
Audio: Italian AAC 1.0 @ 71 Kbps | Subs: English (embedded)
Genre: Drama
The Moment of Truth, from director Francesco Rosi is a visceral plunge into the life of a famous torero - played by real-life bullfighting legend Miguel Mateo, known as Miguelin. Charting his rise and fall with a single-minded focus on the bloody business at hand, the film is at once gritty and operatic, placing the viewer right in the thick of the ring’s action, as close to death as possible. Like all of the great Italian truth seeker’s films, this is a not just an electrifying drama but also a profound and moving inquiry into a violent world—and perhaps the greatest bullfighting movie ever made.
To make a good movie about bull fighting one should first contract a great matador: and Miguel Mateo Miguelin could hardly be braver or more graceful. I saw the movie despite my modern distaste for that ahem sport: and was at least semi-converted. In ancient northern religions, with their male animal gods, the animal god presents himself to the people to be ritually slaughtered. The ritual must be beautiful. The ritual must be risky: potentially fatal for the killing-man-priest as well as for the animal-god. Migueline shows how it's done when it's done right.
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The Moment of Truth (1965) Il momento della verità
