LA BOLA NEGRA: an urgent political manifesto about how fascism erases love, lives and entire generations. A film about the guilt, shame and silences Francoism left behind.More necessary than ever as fascism reaches a new generation. An instant classic of Spanish and queer cinema.
Michael Gothard as Father Barre in The Devils is so perfect as the hippie witchhunter, his counter-cultural hair, Lennon glasses, his Jagger-lips and stylish persecution-gauntlets: the institutional fanatic whose libidinal flair is directed into a pin-prick of inquisitorial sadism, the dark side of authoritarian progressivism. CONFESS! CONFESS! CONFESS!