Cassandro

Cassandro in the ring soaking up the applause

After two documentaries in 2010 and 2018 that did the same, Cassandro tells the story of Saúl Armendaríz, a lucha libre fighter in Mexico in the 1980s, and his transition from being one of masked luchadores to being an altogether rarer creature, an exótico. As a gay man on the macho lucha libre circuit, Saúl has always felt a little “exótico” among the grapplers and grunters. But he’s a masked fighter like they are, even though he’d probably be better off if he just went along with the locker-room banter and got his full flame on. So far he has resisted the switch from being a masked fighter to being one of the … Read more