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Mad Love(Juana la Loca)

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Spain, Italy, Portugal · 2001
Rated R · 1h 55m
Director Vicente Aranda
Starring Pilar López de Ayala, Daniele Liotti, Rosana Pastor, Giuliano Gemma
Genre Drama, History, Romance

Juana is married off by her parents, King Ferdinand of Aragon and Queen Isabella of Castille, to Archduke of Austria Felipe. Death soon makes Juana the heir, but her father suggests she inherited her grandmother's madness and supports Felipe's ambition to rule instead. Political struggle and Felipe's infidelity cause further speculation about the Queen's insanity.

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70

New Times (L.A.) by Andy Klein

At 75, Aranda can still make his actors sizzle on the screen as well as he did 10 years ago in "Lovers." The explicitly hot bits here may be few and far between, but what there is of them is choice.

60

L.A. Weekly by Dan Fienberg

de Ayala is required to supply too much of the energy in a film that is, overall, far too staid for its subject matter.

70

Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan

Succeeds as a full-bodied diversion because it takes even its silly elements seriously. If you're in the mood for impressive castles and sumptuous costumes, torch-lit processions and decorative nudity, this is the place to turn.

40

Village Voice by Michael Atkinson

Adroit but finally a trifle flat, Mad Love doesn't galvanize its outrage the way, say, Jane Campion might have done, but at least it possesses some.

50

New York Post by V.A. Musetto

Pleasing to the eye, with lavish sets, ravishing costumes and two great-looking stars. Unfortunately, there is little else to recommend this overwrought, melodramatic bodice-ripper.

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