Afternoons of Solitude

The film conjures a distinct mood, if obliquely, through intimations of doom.

He’s a man alone with himself, and when he’s at work, he’s a man alone with the animal.

...creates a perfect vacuum of self-reflection, where the 'truth' of death is maintained by the ritual and pageantry of staging it.

Albert Serra captures the ritualistic violence and resplendent beauty of bullfighting in his magnetic, complex documentary about matador Andrés Roca Rey.

...toe-to-toe with the bravado of bullfighting.

Blod och tårar löper som en röd tråd genom Albert Serras dokumentär om den peruanske matadoren Andrés Roca Rey.