Albert Serra on the Goya: a fancy dressing activity | EUROtoday

If there was any doubt that Lonely afternoonsthe movie directed by Albert Serra and starring the bullfighter Andrés Roca Rey, is conceived and shot as an anti-bullfighting plea, was extensively demonstrated on the Goya Awards gala for Spanish cinema, held final night time in Barcelona.

Disappointing, very disappointing are the phrases of the Catalan filmmaker after accumulating the Goya for greatest documentary movie.

It is already unusual, very unusual, that the Spanish Film Academy, made up primarily of anti-bullfighting followers (you must search for an actor, actress, director or director with a magnifying glass in a bullring), grants an award to an audiovisual work that supposedly calls for the values ​​of bullfighting.

Thus, the voice in off who accompanied the winner’s journey between the seat and the stage already clarified that Lonely afternoons “For some it is a bullfighting film, and for others a film in which the great suffering and agony of the animal is shown.”

But it was an evening of calls for and never solely of Spanish cinema; from the tragedy of Gaza to the repression of Donald Trump, the threats of sexist violence or violence in opposition to youngsters.

And Albert Serra stood earlier than the microphone, and when it was assumed that, crutch in hand, he would face with braveness and bullfighting disgrace the troublesome bull of claiming the content material of his creative work earlier than an viewers not near the trigger (the President of the Government and the Minister of Culture have been listening to him), he thought higher of it, most well-liked a couple of blankets within the face, he shamelessly fled from the dedication, he wasted the bullfighting alternative of his life and it didn’t take him greater than a minute to go in to kill and conceal behind the tables.

And, in fact, there was no battle, however a gala ovation.

Serra gave a really temporary speech to say nothing; nothing about bullfighting, that’s understood. He thanked the movie’s picture and sound technicians, and have become entangled in a somber and cumbersome clarification concerning the conflict between the political and the ideological with intimacy.

He didn’t utter the phrase bull, nor bullfighter, nor bullfighting, nor occasion… He didn’t even point out his protagonist, Roca Rey, who was not current within the room, and the query stays whether or not he was invited to the gala.

A posh activity of dressing was the intervention of Albert Serra. If you want bulls, in case your work is bullfighting, it was essentially the most favorable alternative to defend it from all those that denigrate it. But he opted for what was politically appropriate in order to not upset the general public.

It is a disgrace that not way back he obtained the National Bullfighting Award with all honors with the unconditional help of the Toro de Lidia Foundation, which has as soon as once more missed the mark.

Lonely afternoons It will undoubtedly be an excellent cinematographic experiment, however it isn’t a bullfighting movie. In any case, a succession of close-ups of blood, violence, sweat, ache and rawness. Who is aware of if that is the rationale behind their awards.

And proof of that is that its director threw within the towel and took cowl within the alley when the hubby —all those that have naively believed that that they had discovered an mental hooked on the bullfighting trigger—anticipated him to chop off ears and tails in such a troublesome enviornment.