It was a smart decision by Albert Serra to provide the main characters in his documentary “Tarda de Soldad – after lunch to loneliness” with problematic microphones before they reached the arena again and again and presented their terrible show. Otherwise, there would be no evidence of the forced comedy, which occurs among Toreros, Spanish fighters when a bloody sight is made.
“You have such eggs”, “After that, everyone wants to blow you up”, “Your eggs are more than the entire damn arena,” like sentences call them to their Matadora, Torero, who dances with a bull and at the end of the battle with a sword.
Until then, the camera pursued the sight that works in accordance with strict rules. How the bull was originally injured from a horse from a spear in the neck. When he is pushed into the back with colorful ribbons, so that the blood runs all over the body. Like a Matador with a bull, using a mulet, dark red or pink fabric begins to dance. And as he finally proves his courage or, if desired, his large eggs, increasing Ep in the neck of the weakened and the torture of the bull and slowly breaks, until the light completely leaves in his eyes.
With this radical and provocative representation, Albert Serra created a film that can hardly be transferred.
“Tardes de Soledad – days of loneliness.” Director Albert Serra. Spain/France/Portugal 2024, 125 min.
In the center of Tardes de Soledad is the Peruvian star, Matador Andres Rock Rei, who traveled to the next from the Spanish arena. The film drama is very simple. In addition to the scenes on the arenas, the Ray camera accompanies Rei on his trips in a tourist bus and in five -star hotels, in which he is preparing for the next battle and squeezes into his colorful costumes. All this shows the serra in large records. The audience or the whole arena never see.
Time to tell you
The FormStrenge film refuses contextualization. There is no interview, you will not learn anything about your main character. As in his previous feature films, for example, in Pacific or Death of Louis XIV. Little occurs at about two hours, but this gives little place for thoughts.
What goes through his head when he sits on his forehead on his forehead, along with his Torero-Rage, who continues to praise him in the sky? Is it annoying or stroking the ego of the ego necessary for the narcissism of the famous bull -fieter? When the camera focuses on a bull with a bull, the roles of people and animals seem to change. His face is deformed to the grimaces of the animal, while in the dark eyes of the bull, the fight against death, deep grace is expressed.
At the same time, in the art sheath that breaks on the sandy day of the arena, is somewhat deeply homoerotic. This occurs not only from the indispensable praise of male genital organs, but, first of all, from the decorative costumes of Toreros, which have well -being due to the abundance of cruelty.
When Rei in a hotel room pulls white tights to his chest over his boyish body, or his assistant gives him patterns of floral embroidery, skin and brilliant pants, like a skirt above his feet, this makes him think about preparing dragland. Its pink socks, ballerina’s boots and a black hat that allows Mickey Maus-Usham to think, do everything else.
Matador begins with his dance
It is impossible to deny a certain courage for a vain, only 28-year-old Andres Rock Rei, if, after another struggle, the so-called Corrida, in his blue-painted suit, he thanks the applaising audience, and the dead bull was pulled out of the arena with two horses. The bull can be weakened by the seals of his Torero’s colleagues (only when his head almost decreased through the neck injuries to the ground, the Matador begins with the dance), but the massive animal is still dangerous.
When Rey pushes his cross and at the ends of the bull in a circular motion with a mulet, mistakes that can cost him to cost him and allow the audience to breathe: inside.
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Tardes de Soleled is an exciting and charming documentary that shares the minds. Why does the cruelty to animals fall out of time, should be paid to such attention? Albert Serra eludes the rating or judgment, he only observes. And this observation shows the absurdity of the fight against bulls, as is rarely shown. We are talking about courage and honor. Elegance and cruelty. Narcissism and Triumph.
In addition, we know little about Andres Rock Rei, who is called “Messi Matadora” and whose masses are sold as soon as possible. In this context, he has something ironic, that Rei, as Albert Serra recently revealed in an interview, is obviously disappointed with the film. Reason: he was too cruel for him.
