It was hard for La Bola Negra to make much noise over the whole of Cannes, if only because the gay Spanish epic did not premiere until the very end of the film festival — at which point, it promptly emerged as one of its clear breakouts. Directed by creative (and, previously life) partners Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo — known colloquially as Los Javis — the film earned strong reviews, was acquired by Netflix in a splashy deal, and won the festival’s coveted best-director prize (in a tie with Fatherland’s Pawel Pawlikowski). It was a smash hit, at least for those who remained on the Croisette in those final days. So Telluride, where…
