La cosa nuestra

Jan 1, 2006

0h 16m

★ 0.0

Overview

La Cosa Nuestra is a journey to the most hidden and surreal face of the bovid-bullfighting universe. Fun and tremendous, operating in iconographic cannibalism. It is a work that shows another reading of the national holiday, demystifying it. Confronts the Spanish bullfighting culture with the visions and uses of the bull in other civilizations. This video creation immerses itself in the aesthetic, ritual and cultural universe of the world of bullfighting, rebuilding it critically, but at the same time with healthy irony.

Genres

Drama

Documentary

Production Companies

RTVA

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Cast

Voice

Luis Gordo

In their spare time, after their studies or their work, children and adolescents between the ages of eight and sixteen meet at the School of Bullfighting in Madrid to learn the Art of Cúchares: Torear. In their stomachs there is no hunger as in the past, their dreams do not lie in having a farmhouse and being famous. Their only dreams are to be in front of a bull, animal with which death goes, fact of which they are fully aware, as their teachers continually remind them. These, retired bullfighters, some by age, others by force and all with their bodies full of scars produced by the horns of a bull. The nude bullfighting scene is fascinating without being exploitive, and it serves as an analogy for the vulnerability these young bullfighters have when in the ring with the bulls.

5.7

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5.2

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6.7

Matador

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7.6

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5.0

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4.3

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No overview available.

0.0

Blood Is White

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6.5

Under the Volcano

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2.0

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4.0

Carmen

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5.0

Torerillos, 61

Jan 1, 1962

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6.3

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This grisly documentary presents horrifying journalistic footage of suicides, assassinations, bombings, mob hits, decapitations, and more in bloody detail. Not for the faint of heart.

4.9

Blood and Sand

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Remake of the tale of an acclaimed matador who finds himself involved with a beautiful woman, jeopardizing both his marriage and career.

5.5

52 Sundays

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6.5

Blood and Sand

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7.0

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0.0

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6.5

Tjuren Ferdinand - den sanna historien

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6.7

Arruza

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La cosa nuestra

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