Juana la Loca

Juana la Loca (English title: Mad Love) is a 2001 film about Juana of Castile, starring Pilar Lopez de Ayala in the title role. She won a Goya for her role; the film was nominated for a total of 12 Goyas. The film was directed by Vicente Aranda.

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Juana la Loca

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Tordesillas,
the year of Our Lord 1554.

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She is 74 years old

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and has been locked up in this castle
for almost half a century.

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She has been successively
betrayed by her father,

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by her husband and by her son.

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Daughter of the Catholic Monarchs,

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wife of Philip of Habsburg,
mother of the Emperor Charles V,

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queen in her own right
of Castile and Aragon.

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They call her

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Joan the Mad.

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When I close my eyes,
he approaches me.

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I feel his skin beneath my fingertips.

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His voice flows into my ears.

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I perceive the odor ofhis armpits.

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He arouses my desire.

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I do not fear death.

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No matter what,
it will take me to Philip.

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JOAN THE MAD

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