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Juana la Loca [digital videodisc] = Joan the mad / Sony Pictures Classics ; una coproduccion Hispano/Italo/Portuguesa producida por Enrique Cerezo, P.C., Pedro Costa, P.C., Production Group (Italia), Take 2000/Jose Mazeda (Portugal) presentan ; guión, Vicente Aranda, Antonio Larreta ; producida por Enrique Cerezo ; dirigida por Vicente Aranda.

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[Madrid] : Enrique Cerezo, P.C. ; Culver City, CA : Distributed by Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, c2003.

Juana, la Loca, Queen of Castile, 1479-1555 -- Drama.

Queens -- Spain -- Castile -- Drama.

Man-woman relationships -- Drama.

Sex addiction -- Drama.

Mental illness -- Drama.

Motion pictures, Spanish.

Spain -- History -- Ferdinand and Isabella, 1479-1516 -- Drama.

1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Widescreen version.

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?

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

MPAA Rating: Rated R.

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