Afternoons of Solitude follows Roca Rey as he performs in bullrings in Madrid, Bilbao, Santander and Seville in 2023. There ...

Animal rights campaigners have condemned an award-winning Spanish film about bullfighting for “glamorising the torture of animals”. Tardes de Soledad (Afternoons of Solitude), a documentary ...

When Hemingway saw his first bullfight in Pamplona in 1923, he brought his wife Hadley along because he hoped the event would have a positive influence on the unborn son she then carried.

Albert Serra’s Afternoons of Solitude (2024) opens with a bull’s stare, ripping through the camera and forcing spectatorial confrontation. The film doesn’t move away before fixating us in this ...