La Bola Negra, starring Penélope Cruz, debuted Thursday evening at the Cannes Film Festival and landed a 20-minute ovation in the Grand Théâtre Lumière.
The overwhelming reception to the Competition pic, directed by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, comes very near the Cannes record for an ovation in a premiere, set by another Spanish film, Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth, which clocked a 22-minute ovation in 2006.
As for La Bola Negra, it was a uniquely overjoyed audience reception for a Cannes world premiere, the crowd sparking to the pic’s tale of three men in three different periods —
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