
Gala del Sol, dir., Rains Over Babel (2025)
“There is no shortage of gonzo moments in Gala del Sol’s Rains Over Babel. A playful riff on Dante’s Inferno, the film is set in a fantastical retrofuturist vision of Cali, Colombia. The tropical city, here reimagined as Purgatory through the lens of queer joy, magical realism and a dash of ’90s punk, plays backdrop to an age-old tale where life and death are gambled over games of dice. Drag queens and demons roam neon-lit bars with equal poise. Kung fu fights casually unfold in BDSM dens. Brazen and bonkers alike, del Sol’s delightfully off-kilter quilt of a film is, if you let yourself succumb to its pleasures, a maximalist triumph. […]”. –Manuel Betancourt, Variety, January 26, 2025
Sighting Citation:
“Gala del Sol, dir., Rains Over Babel (2025).” Dante Today: Citings and Sightings of Dante’s Works in Contemporary Culture. Elizabeth Coggeshall and Arielle Saiber, eds. January 27, 2025. https://www.dantetoday.org/sightings/gala-del-sol-ed-rains-over-babel-2025/.
Posted January 27, 2025