Vicente Aranda's "Mad Love," originally titled "Juana La Loca" or "Joan the Mad," is a high intensity, if not terribly fast-paced, historical drama that paints the Castilian queen as widly in love ...

Was Spain's Joan of Castile a madwoman or simply a female pawn in the political machinations of a male-dominated society? Vicente Aranda's "Mad Love," originally titled "Juana La Loca" or "Joan the ...

August 1496. Joan, raised at the austere Spanish court, is married to Philip the Handsome, son of the Holy Roman Emperor. She's taken with the hedonism of his court in Flanders, but utterly obsessed ...