Sex, Love and War: How the Racy Gay Epic ‘La Bola Negra’ Could Win Netflix’s First Best Picture Oscar

Sex, Love and War: How the Racy Gay Epic ‘La Bola Negra’ Could Win Netflix’s First Best Picture Oscar hakkında magazin dünyasında yaşanan en son ayrıntılar ve sıcak gelişmeler netleşti. Oct 14, 2026 8:00am PT Sex, Love and War: How the Racy Gay Epic ‘La Bola Negra’ Could Win Netflix’s First Best Picture Oscar By Daniel D’Addario Photographs by Davis Bates For Guitarricadelafuente and Miguel Bernardeau , the romance that fuels “ La Bola Negra ” wasn’t the challenge. “It wasn’t hard to fall in love with him,” Bernardeau says, looking at his co-star.

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The two men, both 29-year-old Spaniards, haven’t tired of one another yet, despite a global tour that began in Cannes this spring and has now brought them to New York. “It was hard to create war.” Related Stories Pedro Pascal in ‘Behemoth!’: The Oscar-Worthy Role That He (and Latinos) Have Been Waiting For Oscar Predictions: Best Director — Could Christopher Nolan Triumph Again With ‘The Odyssey’?

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Those two forces, love and war, coexist painfully in what may be the most ambitious film of this year’s Oscar season. Directed by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, the two-man team known as Los Javis , “La Bola Negra” depicts the lives of multiple gay men in Spain over three separate timelines: In 1932, young Carlos (Milo Quifes) is blackballed — hence the film’s title — from a social club over his sexuality.

In 1937, at the height of the Spanish Civil War, Guitarricadelafuente and Bernardeau play, respectively, a soldier and the prisoner of war he must guard, as their affections blossom inexplicably across political lines. And in 2017, historian Alberto (Carlos González) struggles to figure out how the two preceding tales intersect, stumped until an academic (Glenn Close in a brief, striking cameo) steps in to help.

The story of Spain’s rupture and its fall into repressive dictatorship wasn’t news to the actors. “It’s something that has touched everybody — our great-grandparents were all involved,” Guitarricadelafuente says.

“It’s common in our DNA in Spanish society.” But to make the history feel real and immediate, they had to learn how to behave like soldiers. “We received military preparation — how to hold a rifle,” says Guitarricadelafuente, who has a gentle, soft-spoken bearing both in person and onscreen.

His Sebastián would rather be playing his trumpet — he fights only reluctantly; he’s more at home in his feelings than in combat. “There’s a naiveness to him,” he continues, “but he’s not stupid.

Playing the trumpet is what makes him have hope in the future — one day, he’ll be able to go to Madrid and be a musician.” Indeed, an encounter with a vivacious lounge singer, played by Penélope Cruz, convinces Sebastián that the world is broader than he ever suspected, in a dazzling scene at the heart of the movie. At least one stakeholder in “La Bola Negra” wanted to be sure Guitarricadelafuente could be credible as a fighter as well as a lover: Meeting him for the first time, Pedro Almodóvar, one of the movie’s producers, asked whether the singer had any edge at all.

Guitarricadelafuente relates Almodóvar’s question first in Spanish before translating it: “Is he gonna avoid just being, like … nice ?” He’s going to need some armor as he gears up for awards season. After it blew up a sleepy Cannes earlier this year, earning a 20-minute standing ovation, winning a shared best director prize and selling to Netflix , “La Bola Negra” has been an object of fascination across the film world.

And since it became the first non-English-language film since 2011 to win the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival, it’s been perceived as the only Oscar contender that m

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