'La Bola Negra' at The Nightlight 🎬
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"A visually ravishing, boldly ambitious, unapologetically high-camp celebration of queerness, artistic creation and sexual liberation" - The Film Verdict
LA BOLA NEGRA tells the story of three men whose lives are intimately connected through desire, pain and inheritance, across three different eras – 1932, 1937 and 2017. Rich with Lorca's poetry and suffused with desire, grief and hope, it is an intimate love story and a sweeping exploration of memory, inheritance and queer history, honouring those whose lives and loves were too often forced into silence.
From Cannes-winning directors Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi—known together as Los Javis—LA BOLA NEGRA follows three generations of men bound by desire, pain, and love across pivotal moments in Spanish history.
Carlos (Milo Quifes) longs to belong in a fractured Spain. Sebastián (Guitarricadelafuente) finds connection across enemy lines. And Alberto (Carlos González) uncovers a long-buried family secret, one that finally gives voice to truths the past tried to erase.
Co-written by Calvo, Ambrossi, and Alberto Conejero, and adapted from Conejero’s play La Piedra Oscura, the epic film features a dynamic ensemble including Miguel Bernardeau, Goya winner Lola Dueñas, Academy Award winner Penélope Cruz, Golden Globe winner Glenn Close, and Emmy-nominated Julio Torres.
LA BOLA NEGRA tells the story of three men whose lives are intimately connected through desire, pain and inheritance, across three different eras – 1932, 1937 and 2017. Rich with Lorca's poetry and suffused with desire, grief and hope, it is an intimate love story and a sweeping exploration of memory, inheritance and queer history, honouring those whose lives and loves were too often forced into silence.
From Cannes-winning directors Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi—known together as Los Javis—LA BOLA NEGRA follows three generations of men bound by desire, pain, and love across pivotal moments in Spanish history.
Carlos (Milo Quifes) longs to belong in a fractured Spain. Sebastián (Guitarricadelafuente) finds connection across enemy lines. And Alberto (Carlos González) uncovers a long-buried family secret, one that finally gives voice to truths the past tried to erase.
Co-written by Calvo, Ambrossi, and Alberto Conejero, and adapted from Conejero’s play La Piedra Oscura, the epic film features a dynamic ensemble including Miguel Bernardeau, Goya winner Lola Dueñas, Academy Award winner Penélope Cruz, Golden Globe winner Glenn Close, and Emmy-nominated Julio Torres.
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