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Film forty-six of the festival and Los Javis' The Black Ball is a monument. Three timelines, Lorca's ghost, a Spanish Civil War love story that is simultaneously the horniest and most heartbreaking thing at this Cannes, Penélope Cruz on a tank, and Glenn Close as an American Lorca scholar. The structural achievement alone is almost impossible to fully describe. We talk about why this is one of the great debuts in recent Spanish cinema and why we sat in the theater after it ended not quite ready to leave.