Mad Love

Name: Mad Love
Director: Vicente Aranda
Released: 2001

Synopsis

The tragic fate of Juana I of Castille, Queen of Spain, madly in love to an unfaithful husband, Felipe el Hermoso, Archduke of Austria.

70
New Times (L.A.)
At 75, Aranda can still make his actors sizzle on the screen as well as he did 10 years ago in "Lovers." The explicitly hot bits here may be few and far between, but what there is of them is choice.
70
Los Angeles Times
Succeeds as a full-bodied diversion because it takes even its silly elements seriously. If you're in the mood for impressive castles and sumptuous costumes, torch-lit processions and decorative nudity, this is the place to turn.
63
Miami Herald
It's López de Ayala's show, and she's relentless in her energy and passion.
60
The New York Times
An often watchable, though goofy and lurid, blast of a costume drama set in the late 15th century.
60
The A.V. Club
At heart it's a randy, oversexed soap opera in period garb.
60
L.A. Weekly
de Ayala is required to supply too much of the energy in a film that is, overall, far too staid for its subject matter.
50
Boston Globe
Like an ''Afterschool Special'' with costumes by Gianni Versace, Mad Love looks better than it feels.
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Nothing more or less than an outright bodice-ripper -- it should have ditched the artsy pretensions and revelled in the entertaining shallows.