The 72nd San Sebastian Movie Competition’s Golden Shell for finest movie has gone to Albert Serra‘s Afternoons of Solitude , a documentary on bullfighting, edging out robust competitors from narrative options by Joshua Oppenheimer, Edward Berger and Mike Leigh. The Spanish director’s movie focuses on Peruvian-Spanish bullfighter Andrés Roca Rey. Whereas noting that the doc’s graphic cruelty makes it a harrowing watch, THR ‘s chief movie critic David Rooney in his evaluate known as it “transfixing .
.. a singular research of self-discipline, bravado, laser-focus and showmanship.
” It beat out Leigh’s Laborious Truths and Berger’s Conclave , in addition to Oppenheimer’s dystopian musical The Finish . Elsewhere, Pamela Anderson and the solid of Gia Coppola’s The Final Showgirl took dwelling the Particular Jury Prize for finest ensemble solid. The Hollywood Reporter ‘s evaluate of the movie mentioned: “Even when The Final Showgirl feels slender general, extra constantly attentive to aesthetics and ambiance than psychological profundity, there’s transferring empathy in its portrait of [Las Vegas dancer] Shelly and ladies like her, their sense of self crumbling as they develop into cruelly devalued.
” The Silver Shell for finest director went to Laura Carreira for On Falling , her movie a few Portuguese employee in a Scottish warehouse navigating loneliness and alienation in an algorithm-driven gig economic system, and to Pedro Martin-Calero for The Wai.