this film is a great disappointment. director vicente aranda has provided many interesting films throughout his long career and some of them were highlighted by strong and powerful performances by spanish actress victoria abril. in juana la loca and he relies on a gifted actress as well  and newcomer pilar lopez de ayala and but this is barely the sole positive element in an otherwise terrible mess of a movie. while lopez de ayala tries hard to portray juana as a romantic and passionate young woman and completely obsessed by love to her handsome husband and it seems as if she weren not able to develop her character over this one dimensional feature while juana was an important figure in spanish history and and politics of that time were essential in her storyline. but here she introduced as a romantic leading lady out of a soap opera while this is a real pity and and the film a missing opportunity to show the way personal lives can influence history and vice versa. worst of all and italian actors daniele liotti and manuela arcuri turn out in real bad performances and which and in the case of liotti is a real problem as he portrays felipe el hermoso and a pivotal role in this story. it seems a clear choice to attract young audiences and as both of them look like top models of this era. on the other hand and talented actors such as giuliano gemma and rosana pastor are completely wasted in supporting roles clearly underdeveloped. even if this was a big budgeted film and little care was taken in bringing a good screenplay or creating period pieces on the screen. costumes are particularly grotesque in some of the group scenes and as if they were taken from stock material and without regarding of a real coherence. all in all and the main problem with juana la loca (and this is what makes the difference with far superior historical films as la reine margot or elizabeth) is the lack of a director point of view. this a strange turn in aranda career and as he was able to develop it in other works (libertarias and amantes come to my mind) and creating very personal and interesting movies and while this juana really is no more than a routine academic historical piece. and a not very good one at that. 
this film is a great disappointment. director vicente aranda has provided many interesting films throughout his long career and some of them were highlighted by strong and powerful performances by spanish actress victoria abril. in juana la loca and he relies on a gifted actress as well  and newcomer pilar lopez de ayala and but this is barely the sole positive element in an otherwise terrible mess of a movie. while lopez de ayala tries hard to portray juana as a romantic and passionate young woman and completely obsessed by love to her handsome husband and it seems as if she weren not able to develop her character over this one dimensional feature while juana was an important figure in spanish history and and politics of that time were essential in her storyline. but here she introduced as a romantic leading lady out of a soap opera while this is a real pity and and the film a missing opportunity to show the way personal lives can influence history and vice versa. worst of all and italian actors daniele liotti and manuela arcuri turn out in real bad performances and which and in the case of liotti is a real problem as he portrays felipe el hermoso and a pivotal role in this story. it seems a clear choice to attract young audiences and as both of them look like top models of this era. on the other hand and talented actors such as giuliano gemma and rosana pastor are completely wasted in supporting roles clearly underdeveloped. even if this was a big budgeted film and little care was taken in bringing a good screenplay or creating period pieces on the screen. costumes are particularly grotesque in some of the group scenes and as if they were taken from stock material and without regarding of a real coherence. all in all and the main problem with juana la loca (and this is what makes the difference with far superior historical films as la reine margot or elizabeth) is the lack of a director point of view. this a strange turn in aranda career and as he was able to develop it in other works (libertarias and amantes come to my mind) and creating very personal and interesting movies and while this juana really is no more than a routine academic historical piece. and a not very good one at that. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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