Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Ava-Grace Willis Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Ioana P I expected a higher rating for this film as I truly enjoyed it! First of all I have to say Pilar Lopez de Ayala is playing really GREAT! I simply love the character she portrays: a woman madly in love, jealous and passionate... obsessed with her love. Very convincing! At times she is so real you are blown away. It is not "teen ager crisis" as someone was saying above. I'm sure that person has never truly love or is hypocrite. That is the true passion!The male character is in my opinion very well chosen, the actor is the embodiment of the Spanish "hot" lover and makes her "madness" seem plausible! haha I read other reviews saying he is playing really shallow. That may be true but isn't that what Philip the Handsome should be all about?! I mean he is supposed to be shallow, beautiful but womanizer and certainly not loyal...causing her to torment. This is exactly what he does! The only thing I do not particularly enjoy about this movie is: -the intermezzos with another voice making it look like a documentary -the image of the old woman saying rather improper things (let's face it it doesn't sound good unless from the young and beautiful actors) -the ending... too precipitated I would say... Even though once again I have to congratulate Pialr for her GREAT ACTING!Watch this movie!

Asa_Nisi_Masa2 Allegedly the "true story" of Juana de Castilla, the eldest daughter of the Catholic Queen Isabella (yes, the same who funded Columbus's expedition), the film charts the progress and degeneration of her morbid obsession with her husband, the Archduke Philip of Austria, known as "The Handsome" (and played in a rather unispired manner by Italian hunk Daniele Liotti, at his most buttery and beefy here). This is a groan-inducingly familiar story of late 15th c., early 16th c. intrigue, betrayal and bodice-ripping. It drips destructive lust from start to finish. But while La Reine Margot succeeds in making cruel sensuality and ruthless, cut-throat intrigue entertaining to watch, Juana La Loca just doesn't pull off. It just ends up feeling like a big-budgeted soap opera, with below-average, lazy or over-keen acting. Liotti looks positively bored and Pilar López de Ayala in the title role – though to be fair she may mature into a proper talent – just seems to be trying too hard, switching back and fourth from two-dimensional horny-looking to spoilt teenage hysterics all the way through. Some of the supporting cast are OK, with the exception of Manuela Arcuri, another Italian pin-up, voluptuous and beautiful but really no "actress" to speak of. I couldn't in fact bring myself to feel any concern towards any character, nor for that matter did I feel strongly in a negative way against any of the supposed villains. What a waste of a substantial film budget! This one, sadly, is just so rhetorical and deja-vu, nodding to other films in the genre rather than to its source material - history - for inspiration. It seems to me that such a fascinating and complex historic era deserved a far superior film-maker to evoke it.

earlynr Juana la Loca is the story of a 15th century young Spanish monarch, Juana. The set design and costumes are beautiful and authentic, the dialogue is excellent, the acting is first-rate. As Juana, Pilar Lopez de Ayala is beautiful, feisty, and full of passion for her husband bordering on madness. Her husband, played by Daniele Liotti is gorgeous. When he turns to rampant womanizing, Juana's heart is broken, and she begins to obsess on her husband, sacrificing her duties as ruler of the kingdom. This is a very good movie, and Lopez de Ayala plays the role very well. Is she really crazy? The writers leave it for you to judge. No one could ever play a young queen as well Cate Blanchett did in Elizabeth; but Pilar Lopez de Ayala is totally convincing as Juana la Loca -- Joan the Mad.

edjavega 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.