Juana la Loca = = Joan the mad
(DVD)

Inspired by the scenes from the play, "La Locura de Amor" [The Madness of Love] by Manuel Tamayo y Baus.

Originally produced as a Spanish motion picture in 2001.

Special features: trailers [Juana la Loca, El Hijo de la Novia, y Hable con ella].

Fotografia, Paco Femenia ; montaje [editor], Teresa Font ; música, José Nieto.

Pilar López de Ayala (Juana), Daniele Liotti (Felipe), Rosana Pastor (Elvira), Giuliano Gemma (Devere), Roberto Alvarez (Almirante), Eloy Azorin (Alvaro), Susy Sánchez (Reina Isabel), Manuela Arcuri (Aixa-Beatriz) Héctor Colomé, (Rey Fernando).

Joan of Castile (1479-1555, daughter of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella) has gone down in history as "Joan the Mad." Sent alone to Brussels, sheltered eighteen-year-old Joan is a willing pawn in her political marriage to a young Hapsburg, Philip Archduke of Austria, known as "the Handsome, " consolidating Spain as regional power. Amazingly, Joan falls head-over-heels in love with Philip, who reciprocates initially, but then becomes noticeably indifferent. Barely troubling to conceal his affairs, she suffers sobbing, despairing, jealous rages, becoming more miserable and fixated. Was Joan mad, or did she love Philip with such uncanny relentlessness that he was, in the end, helpless in the face of her passion?

DVD, region 1, anamorphic widescreen (2.35:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround.

In Castillian Spanish with optional English or French subtitles.

Winner, Pilar López de Ayala, Mejor Actriz Principal (Best Lead Actress), Goya Awards 2001.

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