Juana of Castile is MADDDDD WITH LOOOOOVVVEEE for one of those Easter Island-headed Hapsburgs and … that’s the movie. That’s it. That’s Mad Love.
After several back-to-back bangers, Rena and Sara find themselves in biopic purgatory with this boring-as-all-get-out movie that features baffling artistic choices (including absolutely no lighting and an angry-as-hell score) and manages to make what Rena promises are super-compelling people into droning dullards.
Some of the content discussed includes: the best way to shoot a dance sequence (from the waist up, of course), Hapsburg family inbreeding, toilet babies, Isabella and Ferdinand, and our general unhappiness with having watched this film.
Sources used in the episode include…
Sister Queens: The Noble, Tragic Lives of Katherine of Aragon and Juana, Queen of Castile
By Julia Fox (no, not that Julia Fox, the other Julia Fox, although perhaps Julia Fox’s whole thing is to hide being a history nerd.)
Isabella of Castile: Europe's First Great Queen
by Giles Tremlett
Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean by Edward Kritzler
Emperor : a new life of Charles V
by Geoffrey Parker
The Habsburgs : To Rule the Worldby Martyn Rady
Podcasts
The Queens Podcast, episodes on Isabella and Juana of Castile
Web
https://frockflicks.com/snark-week-mad-love-juana-la-loca-2001/
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