A Matador's Mistress

“He defied death like a god... he succumbed to love as a man.”

In 1940s Spain, Manolete (Adrien Brody) is the country's most celebrated bullfighter, and crowds treat him as a saint. His affair with Lupe Sino (Penélope Cruz), a left-wing actress, becomes a public scandal that the press and the Spanish establishment cannot leave alone. Menno Meyjes keeps the focus on the two of them, a man the whole country claims and a woman who wants him for herself.