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Afternoons of Solitude

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Portrait of an active bullfighting star, Andrés Roca Rey, which allows us to reflect on the intimate experience of the bullfighter who assumes the risk of facing the bull as a personal duty out of respect for tradition and as an aesthetic challenge. This challenge creates a form of ephemeral beauty through the material and violent confrontation between human rationality and the brutality of the wild animal.

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Zachary Barnes Wall Street Journal Rarely have I seen a film that has combined the riveting and the repellent to such memorably strange effect. Oct 11, 2024 Full Review David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter ... A doc as muscular and ferocious as the poor creatures being ritualistically slaughtered in those bullrings. Oct 1, 2024 Full Review Guy Lodge Variety This is a major work from a richly maturing filmmaker, of a piece with his recent fiction features in its use of languid repetition and sensory saturation to pull the audience into something approaching a discomfiting dream state. Oct 1, 2024 Full Review Carlos F. Heredero Caimán Cuadernos de Cine Completely lacking any dramatic arc or internal course, the film piles one bullfight after another, without at any point being able to create more depth or density... [Full review in Spanish] Oct 29, 2024 Full Review Hayley Croke Loud and Clear Reviews Serra is able to frame bullfighting through a poetic lens and actualize a story about life, death and masculinity in a way I have never seen before. Rated: 4.5/5 Oct 25, 2024 Full Review Tom O'Brien Next Best Picture Serra’s indecisiveness about his subjects has extended to this reviewer as well. Watching “Afternoons of Solitude” is a thrilling and challenging theater experience, and it’s not one you’ll wish to repeat soon. Rated: 8/10 Oct 17, 2024 Full Review Read all reviews

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Synopsis Portrait of an active bullfighting star, Andrés Roca Rey, which allows us to reflect on the intimate experience of the bullfighter who assumes the risk of facing the bull as a personal duty out of respect for tradition and as an aesthetic challenge. This challenge creates a form of ephemeral beauty through the material and violent confrontation between human rationality and the brutality of the wild animal.
Director
Albert Serra
Producer
Albert Serra, Montse Triola, Luis Ferrón, Pedro Palacios
Screenwriter
Albert Serra
Production Co
Tardes de Soledad, Andergraun Films, Lacima Producciones, Idéale Audiences, Rosa Filmes
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
Spanish
Runtime
2h 5m