Afternoons of Solitude

Afternoons of Solitude (Spanish: Tardes de soledad) is a 2024 documentary film directed by Albert Serra about the Peruvian bullfighter Andrés Roca Rey. Though Roca is on screen throughout, the film contains neither commentary nor interviews, and reveals very little about Roca’s personality, motives, or his life outside bullfighting. The film makes no overt comment about bullfighting.[3]

The film depicts matador Andrés Roca Rey and his entourage throughout fourteen corridas. There are long extended fight sequences filmed very close up, punctuated by torero Roca and his entourage, before or after these sometimes bloody sequences, traveling by car and talking about the performance of Roca. There are also scenes of Roca in his hotel room praying and dressing or undressing from his flamboyant traje de luces (suit of lights) costume before or after these corridas