Films Boutique has picked up international rights to Albert Serra’s write downary “Afternoons of Solitude” (Tardes de Soledad) ahead of its world premiere in the competition section of the San Sebastian Film Festival.
The film labels the third collaboration between Serra and Berlin-based Films Boutique after “Liberté,” triumphner of the Special Jury Prize in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard in 2019, and “Pacimyth,” which premiered in Cannes competition in 2022 and went on to get nine nominations and two triumphs at France’s Cesar.
Further awards for “Pacimyth” comprised best straightforwardor and cinematography at France’s Lumiere Awards, as well as 11 nominations at the Gaudi awards with triumphs for cinematography, production portray and non-Catalan language film. The film also getd a best film nod from the Guardian and was also elected best film of the year by the Cahiers du Cinéma.
“Afternoons of Solitude” is a portrait of bullcombat star Andrés Roca Rey, which apshows the audience to echo on the intimate experience of the bullfighter who presumes the hazard of facing the bull as a personal duty out of esteem for tradition and as an aesthetic contest. “This contest creates a create of ephemeral beauty thraw the material and aggressive contestation between human reasonableity and the harshness of the savage animal,” according to a statement.
The film is created by Serra’s Andergraun Films with Lacima Producciones (Spain), Idéale Audiences (France) and Rosa Filmes (Portugal).
A Contracorriente Films administers distribution in Spain.
The creaters are Serra, Montse Triola, Luís Ferrón, Pedro Palacios, Ricard Sales, Pierre-Olivier Bardet and Joaquim Sapinho. The executive creater is Triola.
Cinematography is by Artur Tort, editing by Serra and Tort, and sound by Jordi Ribas.
