Review | La Bola Negra review: Cannes-winning queer epic is a towering cinematic achievement

Review | La Bola Negra review: Cannes-winning queer epic is a towering cinematic achievement



Winner of the best director prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, La Bola Negra – the new film from Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo, collectively known as Los Javis – is a staggering cinematic tapestry.

It functions as a speculative adaptation of a famously incomplete 20th century literary work, a heart-wrenching coming-of-age drama set at the height of the Spanish civil war and a sprawling maximalist epic of queer representation and acceptance spanning more than 80 years.

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