Bola Negra : Sonetos de Amor

Home Screen Film Reviews Bola Negra: Sonetos de Amor ScreenFilm Reviews Miguel Bernardeau and Guitarricadelafuente share a tragically doomed romance in "La bola negra." Courtesy Netflix. Maybe you’ve heard the whispers that Netflix’s pricey gay epic La bola negra might be the movie that will overhaul The Odyssey for the Best Picture Oscar. That movie now expands to a few Tarrant County theaters this weekend before it hits streaming next month, and I suspect that if I were Spanish, I might be on board with the hype. That’s because even though the movie isn’t really about Federico García Lorca, it provides a long-overdue reckoning with the idea that Spain’s national poet was a homosexual man and may have been murdered for it in 1936. (The identity and motivation of his killers remains hotly debated inside Spain.) Alas, I am not Spanish, and I have seen better gay movies this year, though this film still has a number of things going for it.

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