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ACTOR
Penélope CruzAntonio ResinesNeus AsensiAna Belén
DIRECTOR
Fernando Trueba
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La reina de España (2016) is a Spanish,English movie. Fernando Trueba has directed this movie. Penélope Cruz,Antonio Resines,Neus Asensi,Ana Belén are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2016. La reina de España (2016) is considered one of the best Comedy,Drama movie in India and around the world.
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La reina de España (2016) Reviews
Big disappointment
I was looking forward to seeing The Queen of Spain. I loved the first film and this was very promising, with the same cast and most of the crew. Five minutes after it started, I just wanted to leave the theatre. The main problem is, I believe, the script, which is just very, very poor. The Girl of Your Dreams was pure bliss, and here they try to use the same structure and some of the gags are very similar, but it just does not work. The acting is also quite bad, which is surprising, for the actors are all very good. I did like the settings, even though they could have made more of them. They try to show the bleak Spain of the Franco regime, but this idea is not explored in depth. An unfortunate film.
As good as its predecessor
Sequel to "La Niña De Tus Ojos", which brings together the entire cast of the previous film, retaking the story of the characters about 20 years after what happened in the previous film, almost the same time that both films have been released between them. Trueba pays tribute to the Spanish cinema of the 50s, returning to the character of Macarena Granada (played again by a wonderful Penelope Cruz) that after what happened in the previous film becomes a star in Hollywood and returns to Spain to star in a Biopic of Queen Isabella the Catholic ... But Trueba is not limited to making a history of cinema within the cinema, but rather portrays a cold and gray Spain that at that time seemed to have lost all hope for a better future ... And as with the previous film, Story moves between comedy and drama achieving a perfect balance resulting in a movie as good and as its predecessor ...
The misadventures of a Spanish crew during the filming of an American movie in 1950's Spain.
Writer/Director Fernando Trueba (Belle Epoque, The Girl of Your Dreams, The Artist and the Model) revives the storyline and characters of The Girl of Your Dreams and places the tale (and stars from the original) in a slovenly montage of Span in the time of Franco. It desperately needs an editor. Briefly the story relates Penélope Cruz, as the famous movie star Macarena Granada, who flees the glitz and glamour of 1950s Hollywood to return to her roots in Spain where she has signed on to star in an epic film as Queen Isabella of Spain. Some would say it is enough simply to see Penélope Cruz on screen (she remains extraordinarily beautiful), but the story is so overwritten with meaningless side plots that make the very very long film become quite boring. There are some fine actors involved – Mandy Patikin, Clive Revill, Antonio Resines, Ana Belén, Rosa Maria Sardà, Jorge Sanz, Javier Cámara, and an embarrassingly tedious role for Cary Elwes, but the bluster takes over and even the scenery takes second place to the paucity of significant story. Pass.
Excellent portrait of the Spanish character
Loved the movie, much better than the first part (La Niña de tus Ojos). A perfect representation of Spaniards characters and personality, through one of the toughest periods of Spain's history, but adding some humour to support with the story line. The film produces tears and laughter in equal parts, making you reflect about so many things , past and present (history, politics, human relationships, love, friendship, ambition, fear...). The argument is clean and develops easily, thanks to a group of well-defined characters (enhanced from the first movie). It's hard to find something that could be improved. Totally recommended.
A Rather Unbalanced, Uncomfortable Fusion of Drama with Comedy
24 October 2017. This is a movie that doesn't really offer up a distinct movie genre but sort of a blurry drama that the movie trailers promoted as a distinctive period comedy. Mandy Pantinkin as a movie producer has an Italian twin doppelganger in this movie starring Antonio Resines playing Blas Fontiveros, a former movie wonk who was thought dead but was placed in a military war camp during World War II and has come back to a changed state of both the film industry and his past personal relationships. Cary Elwes as an actor Gary Jones portraying the King is over the top with his performance and his odd choice of a deep guttural voice. His presence as an extended cameo actually seems too distracting and so prominent as to off-balance all the rest of what's going on the movie while he's in a scene. Interestingly, it's possible that either Elwes was miscast in this movie or the character of Gary Jones was miscast in the movie within the movie. It's hard to tell. During the second quarter of the movie, it seems to drag off at times onto tangential and more boring scenes that don't have anything to do with the main storyline of the movie. A fourth of the movie begins, unlike what the trailers suggest, is more about a former movie wonk, Blas, than the dynamic comedy-drama performance of Penelope Cruz. Which actually results in this moving seemingly having two parallel storyline occurring in one movie by the time Cruz manages to take command of her scenes. Resines' scenes are plodding and slow and uninspired. As for Penelope Cruz along with Mandy Pantinkin, they seem to be the only characters who can energize and bring a sparkle of interesting entertainment to the screen in the movie. Cruz has a lively, delicious presence on the screen. Her on-screen presence and her ability to diversify or reveal different characters is vivacious and electric as well as tender and heart-rending. Yet the cavalier attitude towards sexual conquests and affairs seems to find some contradiction in the apparent common acceptance in the movie which may be at odds with perhaps an American audience. Not that such sexual proclivity can't be filmed in a provocative and appealing way as Shirley MacLaine achieved in her Golden Globe nominated performance in Woman Times Seven (1967) about infidelity in France. There's a wonderful singing scene being filmed midway through the movie that seems to capture a cinematographic ambiance that could have been the core of this movie, like other amazing character-driven movies about the film industry such as Saving Mr. Banks (2013) about the Mary Popping's story, the amazing retro-silent movie The Artist (2011), Michael Keeton's attempt at one continuous shot in Birdman (2014), or the biographical Hitchcock (2012). Even so, this movie doesn't project a captivating tone or compelling or riveting performance. It is not an action thriller nor even a real period drama. It actually has more of a cut and paste tonality to it devoid of real urgency or emotional appeal, except for the last forth of the movie which turns somewhat a strange and less dramatic version of World War II dramatic thriller in The Great Escape (1963) even down to a supposedly funny but serio-reaction to a simple phone call ring and the resulting odd attempt at comic relief. It's almost as if the Spanish director forgot how to or couldn't replicate his use of comedy-drama that he managed in eighteen years earlier in The Girl of Your Dreams (1998) also about a movie production from Spain but this time they ended up shooting in Germany. Instead the ending seems to be a sort of clumsy old Wooden Allen mish-mash of cobbled together added final story plot along with a somewhat awkward, confusing but dramatic and touching flourish.