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Serra's 'Afternoons of Solitude' Named Best Film of 2025

12/11/2025

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Albert Serra, the Catalan filmmaker, presents Afternoons of Solitude, exploring bullfighting through Peruvian torero Andrés Roca Rey.
Cahiers du Cinéma named it the best film of 2025.
Despite a limited art-house release, it is now streaming in the U.S.
Marcos Uzal, the magazine's editor, praised it as a documentary and cinematic essay.
Twelve of the fourteen Cahiers du Cinéma writers ranked it among their top films.

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Story summary

Albert Serra, the Catalan filmmaker, presents Afternoons of Solitude, exploring bullfighting through Peruvian torero Andrés Roca Rey.
Cahiers du Cinéma named it the best film of 2025.
Despite a limited art-house release, it is now streaming in the U.S.
Marcos Uzal, the magazine's editor, praised it as a documentary and cinematic essay.
Twelve of the fourteen Cahiers du Cinéma writers ranked it among their top films.