My tender Matador (film)

My tender Matador () is an upcoming Chilean drama film directed by Rodrigo Sepúlveda with a screenplay written by Pedro Lemebel based on his homonymous novel.

Production
For many years, the idea of adapting to the cinema the only novel by the iconic Chilean artist Pedro Lemebel was being handled. Director Rodrigo Sepúlveda and Lemebel himself were strongly involved. There were many reasons that postponed the project, lack of funding, disagreements between parts, copyrights for the cinematographic work, the authorship of the script, etc. 
There was much speculation about the problems among everyone involved in something that the producer once called his "most ambitious project to date."
Complications reached a very high point after Lemebel's death in 2015.

Finally in 2019 it was announced that after signing a pre-agreement, the filming would begin with director Rodrigo Sepúlveda and a cast headed by the renowned Chilean actor Alfredo Castro (according to Lemebel's own wishes). At the same time it was reported that two famous musicians and songwriters from Argentina and Chile would take care of the music, the incidental music would be in charge of Pedro Aznar and the arrangement and selection of songs (a fundamental part of the entire work) would be handled by Manuel García.

Subsequently, Mexican actor Leonardo Ortizgris (Museum ) and Argentina's Julieta Zylberberg (Wild Tales) joined the cast, which is completed by Chilean actors Jaime Vadell (The Club ), Luis Gnecco (Neruda) and Amparo Noguera (Tony Manero). 

The current producers are considering that the film would have its world premiere in 2020 at the Berlinale .

Plot
Chile, 1986, a few days before Pinochet's attempted assassination.

It's the love story between "the Queen of the Corner" (Castro), a openly gay man in his forties who embroiders tablecloths for military wives, and young Carlos (Ortizgris), a guerrilla member of the Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front.

Cast
 Alfredo Castro
 Leonardo Ortizgris
 Amparo Noguera
 Luis Gnecco
 Julieta Zylberberg
 Jaime Vadell

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Category:Chilean drama films
Category:LGBT-related drama films
Category:Chilean films
Category:Films set in Chile
Category:Films shot in Chile
Category:Chilean LGBT-related films
Category:Spanish LGBT-related films