For Guitarricadelafuente and Miguel Bernardeau, the romance that fuels “La Bola Negra” wasn’t the challenge.
\n\n“It wasn’t hard to fall in love with him,” Bernardeau says, looking at his co-star. The two men, both 29-year-old Spaniards, haven’t tired of one another yet, despite a global tour that began in Cannes this spring and has now brought them to New York. “It was hard to create war.”
\n\nThose two forces, love and war, coexist painfully in what may be the most ambitious film of this year’s Oscar season. Directed by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, the two-man team known as Los Javis, “La Bola Negra” depicts the lives of multiple gay men in Spain over three separate timelines: In 1932, young Carlos (Milo Quifes) is blackballed — hence the film’s title — from a social club over his sexuality. In 1937, at the height of the Spanish Civil War, Guitarricadelafuente and Bernardeau play, respectively, a soldier and the prisoner of war he must guard, as their affections blossom inexplicably across political lines. And in 2017, historian Alberto (Carlos González) struggles to figure out how the two preceding tales intersect, stumped until an academic (Glenn Close in a brief, striking cameo) steps…
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