Afternoons of Solitude is director Albert Serra's extremely intimate and close portrait of bullfighter Andrés Roca Rey. The documentary balances between the physical intensity of the fight and a meditative cinematic language, where human technique meets animal instinct. A merciless and poetic gaze at the primitive in our time, and at a man who puts his life at stake in the face of nature's rawness in the arena. Through his distinctive cinematic language, Serra explores the tension between ancient traditions and aesthetics, while revealing human brutality.

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