{"id":97583,"date":"2026-11-04T21:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=97583"},"modified":"2026-11-04T21:25:00","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T13:25:00","slug":"review-la-bola-negra-review-cannes-winning-queer-epic-is-a-towering-cinematic-achievement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=97583","title":{"rendered":"Review | La Bola Negra review: Cannes-winning queer epic is a towering cinematic achievement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/11\/03\/565b2886-fdf2-4c97-bf1c-a249b605d225_35ed3b69.jpg?itok=OEshrKbY&amp;v=1793691961\" \/><\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">Winner of the best director prize at this year\u2019s <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Cannes Film Festival<\/span>, <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">La Bola Negra<\/em> \u2013 the new film from Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo, collectively known as Los Javis \u2013 is a staggering cinematic tapestry.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">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.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/entertainment\/article\/3373083\/la-bola-negra-review-cannes-winning-queer-epic-towering-cinematic-achievement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winner of the best director prize at this year\u2019s Cannes Film Festival, La Bola Negra \u2013 the new film from Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[14675,32422,26495,4503,320,32423,6775,28,32424],"class_list":["post-97583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-achievement","tag-bola","tag-canneswinning","tag-cinematic","tag-epic","tag-negra","tag-queer","tag-review","tag-towering","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/97584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}