The Insistent Monumentality of “La Bola Negra”
The New Yorker · 3 Nov 2026

The Insistent Monumentality of “La Bola Negra”

So begins “La Bola Negra,” an extravagantly overwrought epic from the Spanish directors and screenwriters Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo, with the first of a few clever, if tortured, winks. The trumpeter (played by the singer Guitarricadelafuente, in his screen-acting début) is himself named Sebastián, though when he beholds that fallen statue he sees only a means of escape, not a famously martyred namesake or a marble-muscled icon of homoerotic desire.


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