AFTERNOONS OF SOLITUDE
Tardes de Soledad
Spain, France, Portugal | 2024 | 123 min | col.
The Catalan film director steps into the bull ring to depict the pomp and brutality of bullfighting in a documentary about the young, charismatic torero hailing from Peru, Andrés Roca Rey. The dressing, the waiting, the panting, the clash, the animal dragged across the golden sand in a trail of red, the silence that follows the acclamation, the undressing that reveals bandages soaked with blood. The solitude of the matador, but also of the bull, and death hovering supreme in the corrida afternoon. Hypnotic, sensory immersion in one of the harshest and most violent shows of our times, a monumental representation of the persistence of the primitive in the present, a ritual of violence which sees techniques against instinct, man against beast. An unfair match which puts in the foreground not only the glamour of suspense but also a deeper dimension of agony and terror: not that of the audience, which is never filmed, but that of the bull, who has been turning his gaze since the earliest scenes right towards us. (a.s.)
Local Time
- Timezone: America/New_York
- Date: 07 Nov 2024
- Time: 13:00
Location
- Cinema La Compagnia - Via Camillo Cavour, 50/R, 50121 Florence
Organizer
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Albert Serra
Albert Serra was born in 1975 in Banyoles, Spain. HE’s PhD in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, Universitat de Barcelona. In 2006, Serra wrote, directed and produced his debut feature Honour of the Knights, premiered at the Directors’ Fortnight, Cannes 2006. Since then, all his films have premiered at Cannes except Story of My Death, that won the Golden Leopard in Locarno in 2013. His major filmography includes Birdsong (2009), Lord Worked Wonders in Me (2011), The Death of Louis XIV (2016, Prix Jean Vigo winner) and Liberté (2019, Special Jury Prize in Un Certain Regard in Cannes). He created the 101 hours film Three Little Pigs for Documenta in 2013. He has also shown Singularity (2015) at the Venice Viennale of Art. In 2022, he directed Pacifiction, premiered at the Official Selection in Competition at Cannes Film Festival. He received the Louis Delluc Prize and two César Prizes for this film. He has given lectures at numerous museums, universities and cultural centers, and many retrospectives of his work have been held around the world.
