Great Spanish film about homosexuality, told through three different characters across three different time periods (early 1930s, the height of the Spanish Civil War, and modern day) with the through-line being the very real Federico Lorca’s unfinished La bola negra and his boyfriend Rafael Rodríguez Rapún.
Everyone in this movie is hot as fuck. The direction is incredible, with scenes from each time-period just flowing into eachother without it feeling super jarring. Few films have made me want to smoke a cigarette as badly as this one did.
Highly recommend if you like queer films because I do think this one really had the sauce. Glenn Close jumpscare towards the end though lol.
Let me know what you’ve thought if you’ve seen it - since it has been out for awhile internationally!
This one’s hitting streaming (Netflix sadly…) on Dec 2nd. I’m not sure if any camrips or otherwise of it exist since it is a made-for-streaming (at least in Spain) movie, but I’d assume any with English subtitles from the US showings have been policed aggressively by Netflix. Anyways I’ll look around and will DM anyone who asks for one as usual
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the movie is worth it just for Carlos’ siguiriya dance scene. also smoking is cool af.
Hahaha agreed! It was actually the dance scene that made me want a cigarette so badly, the way he was just puffing on it the entire time - the recently nicotine starved part of my brain (thats right, i’ve finally gone from 3% nicotine vape juice to 0%) was like “i need that” while also looking respectfully and thinking ‘i’d get violently drowned in a trough for him
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