Revered documentarian Roger Ross Williams’ Cassandro is unexpected. It’s a lonely state of being to feel as if you aren’t present in your own life. For Saúl (Gael García Bernal), an amateur libre wrestler living in Juárez, Mexico, life seems to pass him by. When he’s not working at a carwash or helping his mother with her seamstress work, he participates in the low-end libra wrestling scene as El Topo, a faceless runt who consistently loses to the bigger, stronger wrestlers. Exhausted from being his married lover, secret, and dealing with his mother’s quiet resentment due to his father’s abandonment, Saúl begins seeking the life he deserves.
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