The unfailingly engaging Queen of Spain is a movie about making movies that never once lets you forget you are watching a movie.
It's a film about a film that is about Queen Isabella, an Icon of Spanish history, framed by the Spanish people's experience of the Franco reign and the US's political film studio system during the mid 1950's that throws most of what you think you know about all of it out the window.
Every aspect of this film is superb: cinematography, framing, script, score, performances, sets, certainly direction....even the blocking kicks butt.
The Queen of Spain is an absolute joy to experience!
It's a perfect film....silly and sad, romantic and horrifying, in Spanish and in English....just watch it!
It's a film about a film that is about Queen Isabella, an Icon of Spanish history, framed by the Spanish people's experience of the Franco reign and the US's political film studio system during the mid 1950's that throws most of what you think you know about all of it out the window.
Every aspect of this film is superb: cinematography, framing, script, score, performances, sets, certainly direction....even the blocking kicks butt.
The Queen of Spain is an absolute joy to experience!
It's a perfect film....silly and sad, romantic and horrifying, in Spanish and in English....just watch it!