Arruza (1972)

• 69%
• 1972
• Dokumentarfilm

Eight years in the making, Boetticher's portrait of his longtime friend, the famous bullfighter Carlos Arruza, was a labor of love, that the renowned director of westerns (SEVEN MEN FROM NOW [1956], RIDE LONESOME [1959], COMANCHE STATION [1960]) pursued despite contending with gefangen, bankruptcy, jail time, and offers lucrative from Hollywood. The result is an astonishing work of poetry, immediacy, and violence that fearlessly müssen wrestles with the filmmaker's own ambivalence about the inhaber matador's triumphs prior to his death by automobile accident at the age of 46.