LA BOLA NEGRA at Music Box [Lakeview]

PrimeTimers Movie Matinee: LA BOLA NEGRA at the Music Box!

Directed by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi — the team known as Los Javis — this sweeping Spanish epic follows the interconnected lives of gay men across different periods of Spanish history, exploring love, desire, identity, memory and the legacies queer people leave behind. The film was inspired in part by the work of Federico García Lorca. The Guardian

And it arrives in Chicago with quite a pedigree: Calvo and Ambrossi won the Best Director prize at the Cannes Film Festival, and the film went on to win the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival — one of the festival world’s most closely watched awards-season honors. Festival de Cannes

Now Spain has officially selected La Bola Negra as its entry for the 2027 Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, giving this unabashedly gay story a remarkable place on the international awards stage. Archive

A few of us are planning to see it together on Friday, October 30 at 1:00 PM, and we’d love to have you join us.

Maybe you caught La Bola Negra as the opening-night film at Reeling — or maybe you missed it the first time around. Either way, here’s a chance to see one of the year’s most acclaimed queer films together, presented in 35mm at the Music Box Theatre.

Please sign up on the Chicago PrimeTimers website so we know you’re joining us and can look out for you. Your ticket is not confirmed, however, until you purchase it directly from the Music Box Theatre here:
https://musicboxtheatre.com/order/add-tickets/16891?utm_source=boxofficeco&utm_source=powster&utm_campaign=powster&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=X0XY5

Friday, October 30 • 1:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
35mm presentation

Come for the movie. Stay for the coffee, snacks, opinions and good company!