Tardes de soledad / Afternoons of Solitude

Albert Serra: Tardes de soledad / Afternoons of Solitude (ES/FR/PT 2024). Andrés Roca Rey.

Tardes de soledad (titre français) / [Après-midi de solitude : title on screen]

    ES/FR/PT 2024. PC: Tardes de Soledad / Andergraun Films / Lacima Producciones / Idéale Audiences / Rosa Filmes. P: Pierre-Olivier Bardet, Luis Ferrón, Pedro Palacios, Ricard Sales, Joaquim Sapinho, Albert Serra, Montse Triola, Marta Vieira Alves.

    Fiche technique

Réalisation et scénario : Albert Serra

Cinematographer : Artur Tort – couleurs – Black Magic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K Pro (S16 mode)

Costumes : Pau Aulí

Musique : Ferran Fort, Marc Verdaguer

Soundtrack includes : "Valse triste" (Jean Sibelius), "Embryonic Journey" (Jorma Kaukonen / Jefferson Airplane)

Son : Jordi Ribas

Editors: Albert Serra, Artur Tort

    Distribution

Andrés Roca Rey : lui-même

Roberto Domínguez, Francisco Manuel Durán, Antonio Gutiérrez, Francisco Gómez, Manuel Lara.

    Loc: Madrid, Sevilla, Bilbao, Santander

    Durée : 125 minutes

    Genre : documentaire

    Dates de sortie :

Espagne : 23 septembre 2024 (festival de Saint-Sébastien 2024)

France : 26 mars 2025 – Société de distribution : Dulac (France) – sous-titres français: Pascale Joseph.

    Récompenses

Festival de Saint-Sébastien 2024 : Coquille d'or

    Vu dimanche, le 6 avril 2025, Reflet Médicis, Salle 2, 3–5–7 rue Champollion, 75005 Paris, 5e, M° Cluny–La Sorbonne, Ligne 10

Il s'agit d'un documentaire sur le matador péruvien Andrés Roca Rey.

IMDb: "Explores the spiritual pain of bullfighting, the tormented torero in a ring, one of the most excessive and graphic examples of the origin of Southern European civilization."

AA: "Death on every afternoon" was the title of André Bazin's legendary review of La Course de taureux (1951), a bullfight documentary by Pierre Braunberger and Myriam Boursoutsky. Death is singular, but in the cinema it can be repeated forever.

Albert Serra's Tardes de soledad is a new study on the controversial, ancient ritual of the bull sacrifice, dating back to the Gilgamesh epic. In Classical Antiquity it was a part of the "pane et circenses" lineage.

Serra's film is a laconic, repetitive, glorious and inglorious account of ten bullfights of the Peruvian master torero Andrés Roca Rey. The bullfight is always hard and dangerous, but also brutally unfair to the mighty animal, who is in essence slaughtered in a ritual of painful torture.

It is an art and a craft, an atavistic performance, a costume spectacle and a homosocial cult.

I condemn bullfighting, but Alberto Serra's documentary helps understand its primordial fascination.