Mad Love (2001 film)

Mad Love
Theatrical release poster
SpanishJuana la Loca
Directed byVicente Aranda
Written byVicente Aranda
Based onThe Madness of Love
by Manuel Tamayo y Baus
Produced byEnrique Cerezo
StarringPilar López de Ayala
Daniele Liotti
Rosana Pastor
Giuliano Gemma
Eloy Azorín
CinematographyPaco Femenia
Edited byTeresa Font
Music byJosé Nieto
Production
companies
  • Enrique Cerezo PC
  • Pedro Costa PC
  • Production Group
  • Sogepaq
  • Take 2000
Distributed byWarner Sogefilms (Spain)
Columbia TriStar Films Italia (Italy)[1]
Release dates
  • 24 September 2001 (2001-09-24) (San Sebastián)
  • 28 September 2001 (2001-09-28) (Spain)
Running time
115 minutes
Countries
  • Spain
  • Italy
  • Portugal
LanguageSpanish
Box office€8,895,196[2]

Mad Love (Spanish: Juana la Loca; lit. 'Joanna the Mad') is a 2001 period drama film written and directed by Vicente Aranda starring Pilar López de Ayala and Daniele Liotti. The plot follows the tragic fate of Queen Joanna of Castile, madly in love with an unfaithful husband, Philip the Handsome, Archduke of Austria. It is one of the several adaptations of Manuel Tamayo y Baus' 1855 historic drama The Madness of Love.[3]

The film received three Goya awards, in the categories of Best Actress, Best Wardrobe, and Best Makeup and Hair.[4] It was selected as the Spanish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 74th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.

  1. ^ "Film #17266: Juana la Loca". Lumiere. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
  2. ^ Majarín, Una Vida de Cine, p. 463
  3. ^ Dávila Vargas-Machuca, Miguel (2019). "Las pasiones de Juana la Loca en el cine español: desde la Historia y el Teatro a las adaptaciones, readaptaciones y remakes compuestos". Trasvases Entre la Literatura y el Cine. 1. Málaga: UMA Editorial: 105, 114. doi:10.24310/Trasvasestlc.v1i0.6435. S2CID 226813997.
  4. ^ Majarín, Una Vida de Cine, p. 481