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.
＊ Content warning: This film contains scenes that may be disturbing or triggering for some viewers, particularly those relating to personal trauma.
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Like the protagonists in Albert Serra's fiction films, the main character of his documentary Afternoons of Solitude is consumed by a single obsession: becoming the world's greatest bullfighter. Serra places viewers within the primitive and violent ritual where bull and bullfighter face each other, delivering a cruel yet immersive experience where the breathing of human and animal becomes the soundtrack to a duel to death. Dressed in an elaborate ceremonial outfit as intricate as a corset, the bullfighter stands in contrast to the violent imagery of combat. By presenting the macho legend of a fragile human body facing a massive animal as a modern spectacle, the film shows how bullfighters live within a self-created fiction where they regard one another as knights under divine protection. (Sung MOON)
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Albert SERRA
