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Science Fiction, Fantasy 97 min
New York nightclub, The Matador, becomes the site of a high-profile murder that attracts the attention of an obsessive detective, a TV news reporter, and an elusive being living outside the realms of time and space. Their stories converge with that of a new-age cult operating at the command of an ultra-intelligent supercomputer named Bolero.
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Open-ended, contemplative, prestige and formally daring.
2 profiled raters. Loved most by The Provocateurs.
Matador Bolero is the real thing. Open-ended without being vague. Slow in the way that lets things sink in. One for the shelf of things I press on people.
Matador Bolero is the real thing. It leaves room for you, and I love that.
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**MATADOR BOLERO**, the third feature from writer/director Jonathan Rosado, offers viewers a textured, atmospheric midnight-art-house experience that blends allegory, dream logic, and surreal symbolism into a kaleidoscopic fever dream. Less concerned with conventional narrative coherence than emotional and visual immersion, the film unfolds with the unstable rhythm of a hallucination. The imagery often feels simultaneously intimate and alien — particularly through Yves Tumor’s hypnotic performance as Atom, a cosmic observer and glam-rock phantom who drifts through the film delivering cryptic narration and ominous predictions. As Tumor’s film debut, the role feels almost uncannily suited to their artistic persona, allowing the musician’s shape-shifting mystique to become one of the film’s most compelling and destabilizing forces. Rosado and his collaborators have cited Jodorowsky's **THE HOLY MOUNTAIN** (1973) as a major influence on **MATADOR BOLERO**, and the comparison proves useful in navigating the film’s surrealist imagery and symbolic density. Yet the finished product also evokes the fractured psychosexual nightmare logic of Lynch's **INLAND EMPIRE**, particularly in its coll
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