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| Wed. Nov. 11 | 9:00 PM | PBS | The Way We Get By | #22.11 | |
| Fri. Nov. 13 | 2:00 AM | PBS | The Way We Get By | #22.11 | more |
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This is a remarkable movie about some remarkable women, one in particular, the only fully-certified female matador in the world: Mari Paz Vega. The hazel-eyed predator whose every smile speaks to her intelligence: she has been gored so many times that her fine body looks like an elegant white cheese in a bathing suit which has been gouged by over-sized rats; in the right thigh (twice), in the left hip once where the tip of the horn smashed into the bone. She has a nose that would do justice to a Roman senator. She carries herself like a boxer - always ready to pounce but steady as a rock. Over time, in her career, she has faced the 10 bulls in the corrida and killed them with enough grace to gain the coveted title of "Matador". But still, she is "merely" a woman in a man's world. She admits that one word from the men who rule that world could end her career instantly.
Watch her as she faces-down several bulls in several corridas. Look at how she is feted and cheered by the men and women in the crowds. But she is never sure that they have come to see her, her famous name, fight the bulls, rather that they have come to revere the men;the traditional objects of their affection for machismo. Is it not strange to want to adore her because she has the courage of a Spartan and the body of a nymph? That the dance in which she presents herself to the enraged bulls is so elegant and arrogant and yet so coherent that she leads a waltz mixed with a Flamenco flawlessly through the sand in her tiny ballet pumps...the adrenalin-filled confusion rattles around the mind like watching a cross-dressing Baryshnikov dance with himself in Swan Lake.
It's beautifully photographed and edited with style: there is an intercut night scene of a naked female matador addressing a gigantic bull with her muletta, sword in right hand and concentration fixed on the whirling bull's flanks. It's worth watching if only to witness that extraordinary short film within a film. Whatever you think about bullfighting in the Spanish speaking world this film will bring you closer to a definition of physical courage than most; would you root for her or for the bull?