Rains Over Babel

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Rains Over Babel

2025

1h 53m

Comedy

Sci-Fi

Drama

Fantasy

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A group of misfits converges at Babel, a legendary dive bar that doubles as Purgatory, where La Flaca--the city’s Grim Reaper--presides. Here, souls gamble years of their lives with her, daring to outwit Death herself. Steeping us in the intoxicating brew of a tropical Colombian steampunk fever dream, first-time feature director Gala del Sol creates a mesmerizing, fantastical world where life and death collide and fates turn on the roll of dice.

Drew Gregory

Autostraddle

This is a very sincere film about life and death and self-acceptance, but it’s also endless fun.

Feb 1, 2025

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Wendy Ide

Screen International

Students of 14th-century narrative poetry might question how much of the source material made it into this retro-futurist urban fantasy but, as a showcase for del Sol’s playfully iconoclastic vision, the picture fizzes with energy and mischief.

Jan 30, 2025

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Robert Daniels

RogerEbert.com

This is a director with plenty on their mind—homophobia, self-hatred, poisonous machismo, queer communities and dogmatic religion—and makes a canvas, in this case the city of Cali, Colombia, to express them on.

Jan 30, 2025

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Michael Talbot-Haynes

Film Threat

Totally transgressive, delightfully deviant and absolutely addictive.

Rated: 10/10

Mar 25, 2025

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Stephen Dalton

The Film Verdict

Colombian writer-director Gala del Sol’s stylish debut feature is an audacious, ambitious, kaleidoscopic carnival of queerness loosely based on Dante’s ‘Inferno’.

Rated: 3/4

Feb 25, 2025

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Cody Dericks

Next Best Picture

With vibrant locations and even more vibrant characters, it’s a story about the dead that’s bursting with life.

Rated: 7/10

Feb 25, 2025

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Synopsis

A group of misfits converges at Babel, a legendary dive bar that doubles as Purgatory, where La Flaca--the city’s Grim Reaper--presides. Here, souls gamble years of their lives with her, daring to outwit Death herself. Steeping us in the intoxicating brew of a tropical Colombian steampunk fever dream, first-time feature director Gala del Sol creates a mesmerizing, fantastical world where life and death collide and fates turn on the roll of dice.

Director: Gala Del Sol
Producer: Felipe Aguilar Rodríguez, Celina Biurrun, Gala Del Sol, Ana Cristina Gutierrez, Andres Felipe Hermida, Natalia Rendón, José Varón
Screenwriter: Gala Del Sol
Production Co: Gala del Sol Films, Fabrica Mundi
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi, Drama, Fantasy
Original Language: Spanish
Runtime: 1h 53m