Mad Love is quite a package -- part costume drama, part history lesson, part passionate romance. And all pageantry, all the time.

Vincente Aranda's 21st movie purports to tell the story of Queen Joan of Castile, who is known to history as Juana La Loca -- mad Joan. If you look into royal geneologies, and you should, Juana's entry notes her birth in 1479, her death in 1555, her marriage to Philip I the Handsome in 1496 and this brief note: "Became insane after the death of Isabella."
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