The world's most famous matador, the Spanish-Peruvian Andrés Roca Rey, is immortalized during bullfights and in the moments between them. We see him defy death and emerge victorious, while the conversations of his staff convey the aura that still surrounds the figure of the bullfighter today.
Cast
Andrés Roca Rey
Screenings
- September 20, 4:10 PM (ITA sub.)
- September 21, 9:00 PM (ITA sub.)
A brilliant and uncompromising director with a complex and diverse filmography, Catalan director Albert Serra makes his first documentary and once again chooses a controversial subject: a portrait of Andrés Roca Rey, a current bullfighting star. Serra allows us to reflect on the intimate experience of the bullfighter who takes the risk of facing the bull as a personal duty, out of respect for tradition, and as an aesthetic challenge. From this challenge emerges a form of ephemeral beauty through the material and violent confrontation between human rationality and the brutality of the wild animal.
