At the same time it was reported that two 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. 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 Chilean actor Alfredo Castro (according to Lemebel's own wishes). There was much speculation about the problems among everyone involved in what the producer once called his 'most ambitious project to date.' Complications reached a very high point after Lemebel's death in 2015. There were many reasons that postponed the project, including lack of funding, disagreements between parts, film rights, authorship of the script, etc. Director Rodrigo Sepúlveda and Lemebel himself were strongly involved. Pedro Fontaine as 'girl from the choir 2'įor many years, the idea for a film adaptation of the novel by the Chilean artist Pedro Lemebel was being handled.

Marcelo Alonso as 'girl from the choir 1'.It's the love story between 'the Queen of the Corner' (Castro), a middle-aged travesti who embroiders tablecloths for military wives, and young Carlos (Ortizgris), a guerrilla member of the Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front. It is based on Pedro Lemebel's 2001 novel of the same name.Ĭhile, 1986, a few days before Augusto Pinochet's attempted assassination. My Tender Matador ( Spanish: Tengo miedo torero) is a 2020 Chilean drama film directed by Rodrigo Sepúlveda with a screenplay written by the same Sepúlveda, alongside Juan Elias Tovar.

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