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Francesco Rosi, who directed Moment of Truth, makes films with a message, and in this film the message arrives in the very first scene. A funeral procession cuts its way through the streets of a small Spanish village with a huge, elaborately decorated altar in the middle of the procession. Rosi's camera, plays upon the decorations of the altar and the placid smile on a statue of the Virgin Mary and then tilts downward to the miserable peasant boys who must carry the altar on their shoulders. Throughout the film, trappings constantly give way to sordid details in this...
...hero of the film, Miguelin, played by an actual matador named Miguelin, rises from poverty to become a famous bullfighter. Although the outward circumstances of his life seem to change for the better, Rosi continually insinuates that they don't. The impressario who grabs a fat chunk of Miguelin's salary as a matador closely resembles the labor contractor he worked for in the slums of Barcelona. Similarly, whores with diamond earrings are no different from the 100 pesatas per night girls he met while still a dock worker. Rosi carries these parallels to extremes; even the jet-set types...
...depiction of this shift in Miguelin's psyche comes slowly and subtlely, in contrast with the incomparable boldness which Rosi exercises in the style of this film. Amazingly abrupt shifts of scene, striking colors, and entirely straightforward dialogue often make you wonder how the director manages to maintain the dramatic interest to well...
...MOMENT OF TRUTH. Blood, sand and social protest mix liberally in Director Francesco Rosi's angry drama about the rise and fall of a great bullfighter-played with impressive sting by Spanish Matador Miguel Mateo...
...Palace in a custom-made comedy that is long on sight gags, short on spontaneity, but just funny enough to keep the legend alive for another season. THE MOMENT OF TRUTH. With Spain's Matador Miguel Mateo as the hero driven by tragic economic necessity, Italian Director Francesco Rosi rues the lot of a great bullfighter in a film of brutal and unnerving beauty...