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

by 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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