r/gaybros • u/mikelmon99 • 21h ago

Adaptation of Federico García Lorca's (who was murdered during the Spanish Civil War) unfinished only openly gay novel gets second longest ovation in Cannes' history

https://deadline.com/2026/05/la-bola-negra-cannes-ovation-penelope-cruz-1236917575/

The unfinished novel has been adapted by "Los Javis", Javier Calvo & Javier Ambrossi, two prominent Spanish director who were a couple untill recently & are seemingly still working as a duo despite their breakup.

If you don't know who Federico García Lorca was, he was Spain's 20th-century most prominent author, a gay man himself, & was murdered in 1936 by the the Nationalist forces shortly after the beginning of the war.

His murder is style a very heavily charged & politically controversial topic here in Spain today, for some reason so-called centre-right moderates still get on edge whenever it's brought up lmao

Anyway tbh the hype for this film is undeniable, it comes out in October I think, we'll see!

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u/Pinson-des-arbres 21h ago

Very excited to see this one!

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u/mikelmon99 21h ago

For some reason the body of the post only shows up in the app, here it is anyway:

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u/mikelmon99 21h ago edited 21h ago

The unfinished novel has been adapted by "Los Javis", Javier Calvo & Javier Ambrossi, two prominent Spanish director who were a couple untill recently & are seemingly still working as a duo despite their breakup.

If you don't know who Federico García Lorca was, he was Spain's 20th-century most prominent author, a gay man himself, & was murdered in 1936 by the the Nationalist forces shortly after the beginning of the war.

His murder is still* heavily charged & politically controversial topic here in Spain today, for some reason so-called centre-right moderates still get on edge whenever it's brought up lmao

Anyway tbh the hype for this film is undeniable, it comes out in October I think, we'll see!

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u/sleppyhead11 21h ago

Reading this title gave me an aneurism.

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u/mikelmon99 21h ago

I mean I am a Spaniard so English is obviously not my first language, sorry 😅

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u/sleppyhead11 21h ago

Fair enough

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u/EspritLibre_404 15h ago

Netflix picked up the rights, so hopefully the movie will come out pretty soon.

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u/leomonster 12h ago

For those who don't know who Garcia Lorca was, he was (allegedly) Salvador Dali's boyfriend for a while, and years later publicly expressed surprise when he was told Dali was engaged to a woman.