The Spanish queer epic, which tied for Best Director at Cannes and was nominated for the Palme d'Or, will hit U.S. theaters Nov. 6 before streaming Dec. 4.
La película La bola negra, de los directores españoles, tiene como protagonistas al músico Guitarricadelafuente, en su debut como actor, a Carlos González y a Milo Quifes.
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La 79º edición del Festival de Cannes ha llegado a su fin extendiendo por última vez su célebre alfombra en la escalinata del Palacio de Festivales. Por ella ha pasado de nuevo el equipo español de ‘La bola negra’, pero también grandes estrellas como Isabelle Huppert, Eva Longoria, Tilda Swinton…
Con su drama, sobre la sombra de Federico García Lorca, Ambrossi y Calvo reciben el trofeo ‘ex aequo’ con Pawel Pawlikowski por ‘Fatherland’. “Nuestro siguiente proyecto será en inglés y español”
Más allá del cariño real del público a una película, las ovaciones desaforadas en las galas del certamen son otro truco de ‘marketing’
La actriz, que encarna a una cupletista en ‘La bola negra’, confiesa su obsesión con Lorca desde que estudiaba interpretación y que desde niña piensa que Pedro Almodóvar hubiera sido un gran presidente del Gobierno
Nothing says “I love you” like a bullet to the heart in Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi’s La Bola Negra (The Black Ball), an unashamedly romantic decades-spanning drama that emerged in the last days of a very austere Cannes Film Festival as a possible dark horse Palme d’Or winner. It’s long even by Cannes standards, […]
“This land has too many love stories buried in its fields,” says the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca in a brief dramatized appearance at the tail end of “The Black Ball” — a film otherwise content just to channel his spirit as it exhumes the suppressed inner lives of gay men across generations. The second […]
La tercera película española a concurso en Cannes cautiva con su búsqueda de la identidad homosexual, y deja una secuencia de Penélope Cruz para el recuerdo
‘La bola negra’ ahonda en el espíritu y la sexualidad del poeta granadino a través de tres historias en 1932, 1937 y 2017. “Es imposible separar a un autor como Lorca de sus deseos íntimos”, apuntan
Movistar Plus is marking the start of Alfonso Gómez Palacio’s tenure as CEO with a restructuring of its operations, as the leading Spanish pay TV/SVOD platform launches a new content and sports framework. Gómez Palacio succeeded Daniel Domenjó, who left the post in April after just over a year as CEO of Movistar Plus. His […]
Over 2025-26, no country anywhere in the world outside France, not even the U.S., has had more Cannes Palme d’Or contenders than Spain. Pedro Almodóvar, Rodrigo Sorogoyen and Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo have made Cannes’ 2026 main competition cut; Oliver Laxe and Carla Simón were selected in 2025. Arguably, Spain also has two of […]
Spanish titles to track at Cannes: 5 More Minutes Director: Javier Ruiz Caldera A Movistar Plus+ Original comedy written by top Spanish comic Berto Romero that follows a couple in crisis experiencing a time loop during a rural getaway. Sales: Filmax Aida the Movie Director: Paco León This spinoff from the 2000s TV sitcom directed […]
Few clichés are as overused as ‘she needs no introduction.’ This is one of the rare cases when it fits. The actress is a towering figure in Spanish cinema, global celebrity, Chanel ambassador, human‑rights advocate, and even appeared in Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl show. She reflects on how she continues to renew her passion for her craft and everything that surrounds it
Produced with Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo (“Veneno,” “La Mesías”), now Cannes Festival main competition contenders as directors of “La Bola Negra,” Movistar Plus+ Original “I Always Sometimes” begins with love at first lust. Laura (Ana Boga), a festival organizer in Berlin, and Rubén (David Menéndez), a bar owner, meet at music fest Sonar and […]
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