allegedly the true story of juana de castilla and the eldest daughter of the catholic queen isabella (yes and the same who funded columbus expedition) and the film charts the progress and degeneration of her morbid obsession with her husband and the archduke philip of austria and known as the handsome (and played in a rather unispired manner by italian hunk daniele liotti and at his most buttery and beefy here). this is a groan inducingly familiar story of late 15th c. and early 16th c. intrigue and betrayal and bodice ripping. it drips destructive lust from start to finish. but while la reine margot succeeds in making cruel sensuality and ruthless and cut throat intrigue entertaining to watch and juana la loca just doesn not pull off. it just ends up feeling like a big budgeted soap opera and with below average and 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 and switching back and fourth from two dimensional horny looking to spoilt teenage hysterics all the way through. some of the supporting cast are ok and with the exception of manuela arcuri and another italian pin up and voluptuous and beautiful but really no actress to speak of. i couldn not in fact bring myself to feel any concern towards any character and 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 and sadly and is just so rhetorical and deja vu and 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. 
allegedly the true story of juana de castilla and the eldest daughter of the catholic queen isabella (yes and the same who funded columbus expedition) and the film charts the progress and degeneration of her morbid obsession with her husband and the archduke philip of austria and known as the handsome (and played in a rather unispired manner by italian hunk daniele liotti and at his most buttery and beefy here). this is a groan inducingly familiar story of late 15th c. and early 16th c. intrigue and betrayal and bodice ripping. it drips destructive lust from start to finish. but while la reine margot succeeds in making cruel sensuality and ruthless and cut throat intrigue entertaining to watch and juana la loca just doesn not pull off. it just ends up feeling like a big budgeted soap opera and with below average and 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 and switching back and fourth from two dimensional horny looking to spoilt teenage hysterics all the way through. some of the supporting cast are ok and with the exception of manuela arcuri and another italian pin up and voluptuous and beautiful but really no actress to speak of. i couldn not in fact bring myself to feel any concern towards any character and 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 and sadly and is just so rhetorical and deja vu and 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. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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