Mad Love (2001)
by Vicente Aranda
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Actor: Daniele Liotti, Giuliano Gemma, Pilar López de Ayala, Roberto Álvarez, Rosana PastorDirector: Vicente Aranda
Brand: Sony
Writer: Vicente Aranda
Producer: Enrique Cerezo
Producer: James Ordonez
Producer: Manuel Soria
Producer: Pedro Costa
Writer: Antonio Larreta
Writer: Manuel Tamayo y Baus
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 2.35:1
Running Time: 115 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-01-21
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Mad Love (2001)
Movie Review: Period Costume Drama of the Highest Quality
Summary: 5 Stars
Juana la Loca remains on of Spain's most interesting royal characters. Her life has been canonized by Opera, by books, and by previous films. None of these approaches the quality of this very fine period piece as directed by Vicente Aranda. Whether or not the young daughter of Queen Isabella travelled her inherited genes of 'madness' when she goes to Flanders to marry Phillip of Austria is a matter of interpretation to this day. If the delirious, blind passion for her husband and the accompanying jealousy and rage induced by Phillip's infidelities is categorized as 'madness', then mad she was. Aranda presents both sides of this marriage bed conflict in a way that we feel for both character's needs. As Juana, Pilar Lopez de Ayala is extraordinary in her grasp of the vulnerability of the Queen and Daniele Liotti not only acts his role as womanizer convincingly, he also has the appearance physicallly of a man women would desire even to the point of madness! The supporting cast is excellent, never teetering on caricature. The reconstruction of castles, costumes, and lighting make this film a visual delight. In every way this is a superb movie that embellishes everyone's knowledge of 16th Century Europe. Highly Recommended.
Summary of Mad Love (2001)
A fleet sets sail for carry princess joan to the brussels court where she is to be wed to the monarch phillip the handsome. One look is enough to create mutual attraction and joan and phillip forget their political obligations and abandon themselves to their emotioins. However destiny has other plans for them. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 06/24/2008 Run time: 118 minutes Rating: RSpain's answer to Elizabeth is a 16th-century political conspiracy drama inspired by the true story of the "mad" Queen Joan and transformed by septuagenarian Vicente Aranda (Lovers, Jealousy) into an earthy bodice ripper. Age certainly hasn't dulled his taste for hot-blooded cinema. Spanish beauty Pilar López de Ayala, with her doe eyes and milky complexion, is the royal innocent sacrificed in a political marriage to the swarthy Prince Philip (Daniele Liotti with a Fabio mane of hair), a womanizing cad whose wandering eye transforms the naive virgin into a tempestuously jealous wife. Aranda matches Pedro Almodóvar in the arena of self-destructive love, obsessive passion, sweaty cinematic sex, and deliriously melodramatic spectacle. If this portrait of Joan as a volatile package of emotional nitroglycerin borders on melodramatic cliché, López de Ayala gives her a fiery, full-blooded passion and Aranda mounts her romantic obsession in an unhinged, undeniably lusty costume drama. --Sean Axmaker
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