One of the world’s foremost provocateurs of auteur cinema examines the blood and glory of bullfighting. Russian premiere as part of the contemporary programme of the Festival of Films Regained.
Afternoons of Solitude
- Date:
- 1 Oct 2025,
19:30–22:50
- Age restrictions
- 18+
Tardes des soledad
2024, Albert Serra
Spain—France—Portugal
125 minutes, Spanish with Russian subtitles
documentary
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The focus of the new film by Albert Serra, creator of The Death of Louis XIV and Pacifiction, is bullfighting and one of its main stars, matador Andrés Roca Rey. We see him both in and out of the arena, mostly silent, infinitely alienated from everything around him, dying a little with each ritualized bloody duel.
Shot form Afternoons of Solitude, 2024
It’s a remarkable, multifarious work, and despite the controversial subject matter, it’s probably the closest thing that Serra has ever made to a crossover mainstream feature.
— David Jenkins, Little White Lies
The director eschews voice-overs, interviews and explanations: instead, he captures both the paradoxical spectacle of bullfighting and the existential nature of human-animal combat with its eerie poetry of being.
The screening will be followed by a discussion with José Rodolfo Castillo-Morales, Documentary Programming Director at the Guadalajara International Film Festival.