It is curious, because it has not yet premiered in Spain – it will do so on September 25 – and, therefore, very few viewers have seen it, but almost everyone assumed that it would be La bola negra, by Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo, the Javis, the film chosen by the Film Academy to represent Spain in the race for the Oscar. And so it has been.
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As announced by Alejandro Amenábar, in charge of opening the envelope with the selected title, the academics have bet on this film, based on a work that Federico García Lorca left unfinished when he was murdered in the Civil War, to try to reach the Hollywood goal in a competition in which El ser querido, by Rodrigo Sorogoyen, and Los domingos, by Alauda Ruiz de Azúa, were left out.
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La bola negra won the award for best direction, ex aequo with the Polish Pawel Pawlikowski, who presented Fatherland, at the last Cannes festival and is a film in which the Javis delve into the Lorquian universe and explore the lives of three homosexual men at three different moments in the history of our country. “We would love to represent Spain, we would give it our all and we are very excited,” exclaimed the directors from Los Angeles, where they were promoting their work, upon learning the news of their preselection a couple of weeks ago. Well, there it is.
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