Summary: EL BOLA, winner of 4 Goya Awards in Spain including Best Picture, is the December selection in The Film Movement Series. Subscribers to Film Movement receive a socially important film to own on DVD each month. The film poignantly parallels the lives of a caring father unable to connect with his willful but son, and that of distant Pablo (El Bola) and his abusive father who is incapable of giving him the love he needs, replacing it with something far more sinister. One imprints his son in an improbably gentle manner with a tattoo stylus, the other brutally with his fists. Told alternately through both the childrens' and adults points of view, Achero Manass El Bola is a stirring narrative that lodges in the memory.
El Bola
(2000)
