AFTERNOONS OF SOLITUDE

Golden Shell Award, San Sebastián 2024

Original language: Spanish

Subtitles: English, Romanian

Directed by: Albert Serra

Country: Spain, France, Portugal

Year of production: 2024

Length: 125 minutes

Genre: documentary

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.   

Credits

Albert Serra – Director

Albert Serra – Script

Artur Tort – Cinematography

Ariadna Ribas, Albert Serra, Artur Tort – Editing

Samuel Mittelman, Jordi Ribas – Sound

Casting

Andrés Roca Rey

Roberto Domínguez

Francisco Manuel Durán

Antonio Gutiérrez

Francisco Gómez

Manuel Lara