{"id":639905,"date":"2024-09-28T20:39:14","date_gmt":"2024-09-28T17:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-albert-serras-startling-matador-doc\/"},"modified":"2024-09-28T20:39:14","modified_gmt":"2024-09-28T17:39:14","slug":"watch-albert-serras-startling-matador-doc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-albert-serras-startling-matador-doc\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Albert Serra&#8217;s Startling Matador Doc"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2833939a5f9\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2833939a5f9\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-albert-serras-startling-matador-doc\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Albert_Serras_Startling_Matador_Doc%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online Albert Serra&#8217;s Startling Matador Doc&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-albert-serras-startling-matador-doc\/#%E2%80%9CAlbert_Serras_Startling_Matador_Doc%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Albert Serra&#8217;s Startling Matador Doc&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Albert_Serras_Startling_Matador_Doc%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online Albert Serra&#8217;s Startling Matador Doc&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CAlbert_Serras_Startling_Matador_Doc%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Albert Serra&#8217;s Startling Matador Doc&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Albert Serra\u2018s \u201cAfternoons of Solitude\u201d begins not taking the bull by the horns, but looking it in the eye. It opens on a blunt close-up of a magnificent bovine specimen staring straight to camera, its gaze somehow confrontational, even as its pupils are nearly lost in the glossy obsidian monument of its head. The beast presumably doesn\u2019t know it\u2019s about to die, but seems angrily resigned to its fate anyway \u2014 or more likely we feel angry on its behalf, and project that back onto this regal image. In the course of the next two hours, Serra\u2019s extraordinary documentary about the ritual grandeur and violent indignity of Spanish bullfighting will never again observe its animal victims quite so intimately, but neither do we forget the shot: Even as the film\u2019s focus shifts to the bull\u2019s human conqueror, star Peruvian <em>torero<\/em> Andr\u00e9s Roca Rey, it\u2019s that doomed stare that haunts us.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Free of commentary and interviews, Serra\u2019s film avoids a rhetorical stance on a practice that continues to be a subject of polarizing debate in the Catalan filmmaker\u2019s homeland. Instead, it permits ample room for the viewer\u2019s own emotional responses as it aloofly observes Roca Rey both in and out of the ring. There\u2019s certainly a fascination here with the contrived spectacle of bullfighting, with its intricate choreography and ornate, spangly costuming, but you\u2019d be hard pressed to describe \u201cAfternoons of Solitude\u201d as celebratory of its subject. The film\u2019s gaze is arguably as mocking as it is dazzled \u2014 with the macho posturing and hero-worship of Roca Rey a tacit source of comedy \u2014 while Serra, living up to his reputation for challenging arthouse fare, doesn\u2019t flinch in his presentation of animal abuse and suffering. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    That frankness may make the film something of a hot potato for distributors, and has duly drawn protests from Spanish animal-rights groups ahead of its world premiere in competition at the San Sebasti\u00e1n Film Festival. (New York will host its international premiere next week.) But this is a major work from a richly maturing filmmaker, of a piece with his recent fiction features in its use of languid repetition and sensory saturation to pull the audience into something <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roaching a discomfiting dream state. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    There\u2019s little attempt to impose a narrative arc on the two-hour-plus proceedings, as the film cycles between three principal spaces: the roaring, unidentified bullrings where Roca Rey performs; the cosseted car in which he <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a>s to and from venues, surrounded by a fawning all-male entourage; and the plush hotel rooms in which he silently assembles and disassembles his gaudy matador armor, with gleaming metallic threads and sequins often caked in blood. Though much time is spent watching Roca Rey either psyching himself up for fights or decompressing afterwards, \u201cAfternoons of Solitude\u201d isn\u2019t a character study: He remains a remote, taciturn presence throughout, and Serra has little interest in investigating the man\u2019s interior or domestic life, covering merely the adrenaline rush and drop of his work routine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    In some senses, Roca Rey seems as much an object as the ill-fated bull: In one witty preparation scene, an assistant helps him into his impossibly snug <em>taleguilla<\/em> breeches by nonchalantly lifting his entire body and shaking him into the garment, treating him more like a mannequin than a master. And while his acolytes shower him with praise in the car from the stadium, their praise is so hyperbolic as to be almost dehumanizing: \u201cYou\u2019re a giant, a warrior, your balls are bigger than the whole fucking arena,\u201d they drone on, as he ignores them, stoically staring off into the middle distance. You can sense Serra\u2019s amusement by such absurdities, not to mention the homoerotic undertow to all this vain masculine puffery, though the stark contrast between these ceremonial details and the visceral pain and peril of what happens in the ring stops us short.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    For no amount of fancy footwork and brilliant carmine-colored silk can conceal the ugly fact that this storied Spanish tradition is an exercise in killing for sport. Serra and his regular DP Artur Tort Pujol (who also edits the film with the director) aren\u2019t out to hide that either, eschewing grandiose wide shots for tighter closeups that isolate and accentuate the grisly physical destruction under way \u2014 often excluding the assembled crowd from the frame, leaving us feeling oddly, luridly unaccompanied in our spectatorship. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    At a certain point, the film\u2019s emphasis shifts again from Roca Rey, pristinely poised even when under two-horned attack, to the bull itself, felled and furious and glistening with its own blood, before it\u2019s dragged to its death in chains. It\u2019s an end, but it certainly doesn\u2019t feel like a victory, even as Roca Rey and his fellow fighters take a preening lap of honor in their gilded finery. Stoic but hardly numb to the glaring sensation of it all, \u201cAfternoons of Solitude\u201d leaves it to the viewer to determine what beauty, if any, is left in this brutality.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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