Alberto Serra’s “Afternoon of Solitude” received the San Sebastián Critics’ Award
Albert Serra was awarded at the festival in San Sebastián with Feroz Zinemaldia Award 2024 film critics for his work A lonely afternoona film that follows the unique career of a Peruvian bullfighter Andres Roca Rey.
Maria Guerracompany president Association of Cinematographers of Spain (AICE), he emphasized that A lonely afternoon “It is an intimate and sublime portrait of the beauty and primitivism of bullfighting,” he added Albert Serra “places the camera in an unprecedented space with merciless close-ups of the toreador’s brutal tension and bull slaughter.”
Serra expressed his gratitude for the award, considering it “the most coherent thing in the world” because his entire career “was born out of critics”. “They said good things about my films and eventually people believed it,” Serra said wryly.
Albert Serra already has excellent results in Feroz priceswhich received the Feroz Special Award in 2017 Death of Louis XIV and be a candidate for Fierce Outburst Fiction Award in 2023 Pacification. This career, along with his new award-winning film, cements his position as one of Spain’s most critically acclaimed filmmakers, whose work continues to be the subject of analysis and debate.
It was also announced during the event that the Feroz 2025 awards will be held on January 25 in Pontevedraand will be introduced Daniwho previously won Best Supporting Actor for the film I love you madly. La Dani expressed, “I am calm, proud, blessed and happy. I know it’s all just an illusion and I’ll be very nervous when the moment comes, but they’ll be cool nerves. How crazy, right? I was a saleswoman, suddenly I was nominated for a wild one, I won it and a year later I was presenting a gala… Life is very cool.’
It was not an easy process, he said at the press conference Festival in San Sebastianwhere the film was screened in its official section in the middle controversy of those who accuse him of “romanticisation”. animal suffering. Before the premiere screening, there will be a demonstration organized by the Animalist Party with the Environment (PACMA), which has already requested the removal of the film from the festival program.
For Albert Serrait is a baseless controversybecause, he said, what he was interested in was capturing this whole universe from a creative point of view, as if it were a work of art. “Just as you don’t remove a piece from a museum that depicts war and human violence, It makes no sense that this movie should be banned.. “I am committed to the language of film and to offering a complex and rich work.”
How the film community celebrates this new achievement Albert Serrathere is no doubt about it A lonely afternoon will continue to be a topic of conversation in the world of cinema due to his unique approach and ability to create deep reflections on bullfighting and its many facets.
Source: EFE