Penélope Cruz and Glenn Close Star in Spanish Civil War Gay Drama at Cannes
The Spanish drama links three gay stories across eras and drew a near-record ovation, just shy of Cannes’ 22-minute mark, critics said.
- La Bola Negra is a Spanish film directed by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi that premiered at the 79th Cannes Film Festival and received a 20-minute standing ovation, nearly matching the festival record set by Pan's Labyrinth in 2006.
- The film tells intertwined stories of three men from 1932, 1937, and 2017, exploring themes of sexuality, desire, and inspired by Spanish poet Federico García Lorca's unfinished works.
- Penélope Cruz and Glenn Close star in the film, which is a superproduction featuring extensive period detail, hundreds of extras, and elaborate costume design, recreating wartime Spain and surreal sequences.
- The directors dedicated the film to Federico García Lorca, a gay poet killed by fascism, and affirmed their commitment to LGBT rights, stating they will not step back in this fight.
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At the beginning of 1936, Federico García Lorca began writing one of his last works, which he baptized The Black Ball and was going to address, in a more direct way and in the form of a Costumbrist drama, homosexuality. The writer could never finish it because he was murdered in August of that same year, and of that unfinished play only four leaves remained and the testimony of Cipriano Rivas Cherif, to whom Lorca entrusted part of the plot. 90 …
Authors of the series "La mesías", Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi unveiled in competition an ambitious film mixing the fate of three men from 1932 to 2017, with the link of poet and writer Federico García LorcaC
The Javis in Cannes After Razing with ‘The Black Ball’: ‘Radical Thoughts, in General, Lead Nowhere’
Following the overwhelming reception they received for the screening of *La bola negra* at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, Los Javis addressed the crowds at the event this Friday. Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi spoke to the media in a press conference that led to a reflection on polarization. In *La bola negra*, Los Javis, through their unique authorial voices, explore what it's like to be a queer person in three different eras: 1932, 1937, and…
The screening of "La bola negra" in Cannes, which received one of the longest standing ovations of the festival, was one of the most memorable moments that Penélope Cruz experienced at the event, the Spanish star said this Friday (22). The film, which intertwines the stories of three gay men in different eras with the common thread of an unfinished work by Federico García Lorca, received a 15 to 20 minute standing ovation the previous night, acc…
'The black ball', the film that Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo present at the Cannes competition, received more than 15 minutes of applause this Thursday at their gala pass at the festival, while international criticism praises the proposal "cautivator" and "emotional" of the film.The filmmakers, very excited, hugged with all the members of their team, from Penélope Cruz to Guitarricadelafuente or Miguel Bernardeau, before the watchful gaze of…
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