Federico García Lorca

And finally, La Bola Negra, directed by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrosi, has become the third most successful Spanish film of all time, with 36.7 million euros taken and 5.4 million cinema goers at the box office.

The production, starring Penelope Cruz and Glenn Close and inspired by Federico García Lorca, is only behind Ocho Apellidos Vascos and Lo Imposible.

In addition, La Bola Negra has been pre-selected to represent Spain at the 2027 Oscars, a recognition that could further boost its box office run.

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Among the plays that Federico García Lorca couldn't finish writing, there's one in particular that talks about a young man.

Yes, that's the Black Pole.

Miguel, I'm going to start with you, and I want to ask both of you this.

That was the most difficult one, I think, the truck one, where I say goodbye, where I tell him to say goodbye.

I think it all started with us preparing, studying a lot about the civil war, the socio-economic cultural times that were taking place during the war, and understanding the heaviness of the situation, the tragedy that the war was for a lot of young people.

And then studying Lorca's work, And then rehearsing, finding the tone, the rhythm and trusting that the silences and the gazes and the little details will be compelling for people to understand this relationship.

But yeah, definitely the big days were, I mean, it was nerve wracking in a way.

And this particular chat is with the absolutely beautiful and wonderful Spanish musician, songwriter and now actor, Guterrica de la Fuente, who stars in this beautiful film La Bola Negra.

It's a queer epic about the queer men who appear in the great poet Lorca's body of work.

It's kind of three generations of men, stories intertwined and unveiling and the connective tissue between them and kind of shared trauma.

It's so beautiful.

God was with them, and the Vicar of Christ would never forget them.

The red tide of martyrdom in Spain during August needs to be constantly kept in mind to provide due perspective of the nationalist execution of Federico Garcia Lorca, probably Spain's greatest living poet, at the village of Visnar near Grenada at dawn, August 19th, and the extraordinary attention given to it by historians.

The famous city of Grenada, site of the Alhambra and of the completion of the reconquest of Spain from the Moors in 1492 by the great Isabel and Fernando, was part of the province of Andalusia.

Most of Andalusia had been taken over by the nationalists as a result of Quiepo Gayano's remarkable, remarkably successful coup in Sevilla, though some of its northern and eastern parts and coastal city of Malaga remained in the hands of the Republic.

Nevertheless, Quiepo flatly rejected Franco's personal request about that the death penalty be reconsidered and Campins was executed.

The nationalist governor of Grenada, appointed and supported by Quiepo, was Jose Valdez.

At dawn, August 16th, the day the poet Garcia Lorca was arrested, his brother-in-law Manuel Fernandez Montesinos, who had been the socialist mayor of Grenada, was shot at dawn along with 29 others considered important collaborators with the overthrow, with the overthrown government.

This brought Valdez's total executions to 236 during less than a month since the rising.

There is another kind of cue that is about the pregnant man.

So it's like, should everybody be pregnant? And obviously in the case of Lucy de Garay, Lucy de Garay, what is a little bit kind of resentful about is that in a sense, motherhood being pregnant becomes again isn't the word neutralized really adequate i mean in a sense it loses it loses let's say that we're in a pre in a pre-socratic world where the goddesses of motherhood and where you go and in the same way that you go to afterlife and you know put incense and everything just you know these goddesses and then you you're praying to to become brain and to have um and obviously there's a whole thing about being pregnant that for example garcia lorca federico garcia lorca had a whole theater piece called yerma where a woman is completely desperate because she cannot become pregnant and again this is something that this that doesn't touch is my for example my particular

interest

but i can obviously think about it and think, oh, wow, that is interesting.