2023 · drama · sports
Cassandro
Directed by Roger Ross Williams1h 46m2023
The true story of Saúl Armendáriz, a gay amateur wrestler from El Paso that rises to international stardom after he creates the character Cassandro, the “Liberace of Lucha Libre.” In the process, he upends not just the macho wrestling world but also his own life.
Our read: Cassandro (2023) reads as a warm, steady, grounded drama · sports entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, steady, gentle drama / sports, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- warm
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
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