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The Queen of Spain

La reina de España

2016

Fernando Trueba

Penélope Cruz, Antonio Resines, Jorge Sanz, Javier Cámara ...

4.6

3,801

Drama. Comedy Actress Macarena Granada (Cruz) after her experiences in Berlin, travelled to Hollywood, where she became a star. We are immersed in the 1950s, as the diva returns to Spain to shoot a US blockbuster entitled "The Queen of Spain", where she will breathe life into Isabella I of Castile: in Madrid, not only will she meet up again with her old friends and colleagues from the troupe but she will also have to contend with another dictatorial ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Jay Weissberg Variety	"Trueba is having so much fun revisiting characters from 1998’s 'The Girl of Your Dreams' that he’s forgotten how to build a story out of multiple strands and make it all work."
		Jonathan Holland The Hollywood Reporter	"An engaging if unmemorable historical dramedy (...) Queen is the sort of project which marketing teams like to talk about as 'classic' while secretly knowing that it’s just old-fashioned"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Penélope Cruz rescues this frequently silly comedy, set on a 1950s film set in Franco’s Spain (...) an entertaining, at times exasperating story (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Sarah Ward Screendaily	"Audiences needn’t be familiar with its predecessor to know where this undemanding and unmemorable effort is heading"
		Tatiana Craine Village Voice	"This uneven film glosses over too much — and runs too long. Sumptuous production and costume design coupled with José Luis Alcaine’s expert cinematography make it a feast for the eyes… but there’s not much more substance."
		Keith Watson Slant	"A pleasant but inert collection of scenes and incidents that never coheres into a unified whole (...) Trueba fails to probe the film's political implications (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"

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