Portrait of an active bullfighting star, Andrés Roca Rey, which allows us to reflect on the intimate experience of the bullfighter who assumes the risk of facing the bull as a personal duty out of respect for tradition and as an aesthetic challenge. This challenge creates a form of ephemeral beauty through the material and violent confrontation between human rationality and the brutality of the wild animal.
This challenge creates a form of ephemeral beauty through the material and violent confrontation between human rationality and the brutality of the wild animal.
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.
- Director: Albert Serra
- Cast: Roberto Domínguez, Francisco Manuel Durán, JFrancisco Gómez.
- Genre: Documentary | Bullfighting.
- Duration 125 min.
- Nationality: Spain-France-Portugal
- Language: Spanish.
- Production Companies: Lacima Producciones, Idéale Audience, arte France Cinéma, Rosa Filmes
