The Passion Within (in the UK), Blood and Passion (in Canada), and A Matador’s Mistress (in the US), is a 2007 biopic of bullfighter Manuel Laureano Rodríguez Sánchez better known as Manolete, was written and directed by Menno Meyjes. This is the first film from HandMade Films since Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998). It was released in France on 31/3/2010.
The Menno Meyjes directed drama stars Adrien Brody as Spanish bullfighter Manolete, in a film that covers his late life love affair with actress Lupe Sino (Penélope Cruz) before he was gored to death in the bull ring. Sino's communist politics turned their affair into a scandal in the early 1940s, especially after discovering her previous marriage to a Stalinist-communist party member. The film begins with Manolete's last day in Linares.
The film premiered on 28 August 2008 in the Toronto International Film Festival.
Despite a planned release date of 2007, the film faced several production delays and a spiralling budget. Although it has been scheduled for a theatrical release in France on 31 March 2010.(This is not a complete sentence.) Deadline's Mike Fleming reports that, "Even though the film stars two Oscar winners,
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