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Mad Love
The tragic fate of Juana I of Castille, Queen of Spain, madly in love to an unfaithful husband, Felipe el Hermoso, Archduke of Austria.
Release : | 2001 |
Rating : | 6.5 |
Studio : | Enrique Cerezo, Canal+ España, |
Crew : | Art Designer, Director of Photography, |
Cast : | Pilar López de Ayala Daniele Liotti Rosana Pastor Giuliano Gemma Roberto Álvarez |
Genre : | Drama History Romance |
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Slow pace in the most part of the movie.
Did you people see the same film I saw?
Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.
An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.
First of all I didn't know Spanish I watched this movie with English subtitle. In this movie I like the acting of "Pilar López de Ayala" she was awesome . Focus of the movie is on the Juana Mad Love. Start of the film marriage of king and queen. So, Juana love her husband with full of heart till the end of the movie. She finds out many time that her husband was not faithful to her . even he tries to show in pulic that she went crazy even then she loves her but her suspicion over her husband increase she tired to find the girl he was sleeping with.. So this goes on like this from start to end. Director work of this movie is great he done great work on the movie . This movie is one of the good foreign movie according to me.
Vicente Aranda and his collaborators took liberties when they decided to base their film on the tragic figure of Juana, a Spanish princess, the daughter of the Catholic Kings of Spain. Leave it to Mr. Aranda's feverish imagination, and he will have the viewer thinking this young woman was a nymphomaniac of epic proportions. Historically this film is incorrect as it's derailed by the sexual context Mr. Aranda gave the movie.When Juana is sent to Flandes to marry Phillip, little prepared the young and sheltered woman to find a man who was, above all, a womanizer and a libertine, who took his pleasure wherever he could find. He captivates Juana with his good looks and bed manners. In fact, Phillip's nickname was "the handsome", something that comes across in the way this vain man acts throughout his life.Pilar Lopez Ayala, who plays the leading role, shows some passionate moments in the way she portraits the tragic Juana. Danielle Liotti, is seen as Phillip. Eloy Azorin appears as Alvaro and Giuliano Gemma is DeVeyre, Phillip's right hand man.
The movie should be seen chiefly for its main actress, the beautiful and talented Pilar López de Ayala. She does the absolute best with what the script gives her. This should be an entertaining and engrossing film, especially for those interested in Renaissance Europe, but it may be taking just too many liberties with the historical facts. It is highly doubtful that the real Juana became "mad" chiefly out of love for an unfaithful husband, who in this movie is not shown to be particularly interesting anyway. And if the real Juana was anywhere near as beautiful as the actress who plays her, I suppose the real Philip would not have been such a mean husband to her. Aside from her husband, her father King Fernando of Aragón and most of the Castilian nobles are not depicted too favorably either. Still, this movie is a good movie if you like costume drama, especially one with a southern European more than an English background.
What a silly movie. While it looks nice, it doesn't make a lot of sense. On the one hand, the film suggests that Juana's "madness" was that she was just a woman ahead of her time. On the other hand, she has an obsession that is right out of the worst Victorian novel of the wronged woman, and that does seem a sort of mental problem, like Miss Havesham in a castle. This movie is what Elizabeth would have been if Elizabeth had not been able to get past Essex's sexual attraction.