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The Guardian - UK
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Entertainment
Simon Wardell

Cassandro to Funny Face: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Cassandro Audrey Hepburn Gael García Bernal Saúl Armendáriz Prime Video Alec Guinness Awkwafina Billi Fred Astaire José Hernández
Gael García Bernal as Saúl Armendáriz in Cassandro.
A smash hit … Gael García Bernal as Saúl Armendáriz in Cassandro. Photograph: Alejandro Lopez Pineda/Prime Video

Cassandro

This fascinating wrestling biopic gets much of its oomph from the risk-taking of its lead, Gael García Bernal. He plays Saúl Armendáriz, a fighter in Mexico’s lucha libre world who decides to perform in the guise of Cassandro, an “exótico” – a type of male wrestler who dresses in drag and always loses. Saúl battles to be the first to win his fights, bumping up against homophobia and tradition in the process. Director Roger Ross Williams glories in the innate spectacle of the choreographed bouts, while Bernal brings out the tension between the freedom Saúl feels in the ring and the melancholy of his everyday life of secrecy and repression.
Friday 22 September, Prime Video

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