The Queen of Spain

The Queen of Spain
Spanish	La reina de España
Directed by	Fernando Trueba
Written by	Fernando Trueba
Produced by	Penélope Cruz Anne Deluz Cristina Huete Judit Stalter
Starring	Penélope Cruz Antonio Resines Neus Asensi Ana Belén Javier Cámara Chino Darín Loles León Arturo Ripstein Jorge Sanz Rosa María Sardá Santiago Segura Clive Revill Cary Elwes Mandy Patinkin
Cinematography	José Luis Alcaine
Edited by	Marta Velasco
Music by	Zbigniew Preisner
Production companies	Fernando Trueba PC Atresmedia Cine
Distributed by	Universal Pictures[1]
Release dates	25 November 2016 (2016-11-25) (Spain) February 2017 (2017-02) (Berlin)
Country	Spain
Languages	Spanish English
Box office	$1.2 million[1]

The Queen of Spain (Spanish: La reina de España) is a 2016 Spanish comedy-drama film written and directed by Fernando Trueba. Starring Penélope Cruz, Antonio Resines, Neus Asensi, Ana Belén, Javier Cámara, Chino Darín, Loles León, Arturo Ripstein, Jorge Sanz, Rosa Maria Sardà, Santiago Segura, Clive Revill, Cary Elwes and Mandy Patinkin. It was shown in the Berlinale Special section of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival.^[2]

The film is a sequel to Trueba's 1998 drama The Girl of Your Dreams with Cruz, Resines, Asensi, León, Sanz, Sardà and Segura reprising their roles from the previous film.^[3]

It was nominated for 5 Goya Awards at the 31st Goya Awards, without winning any, including the nomination for Cruz as Best Actress for the same role for which she had won the Best Actress Award at the 13th Goya Awards, making her the first actress to be nominated twice for the same role in two different films.^[4]

Plot

Nearly twenty years after the events of The Girl of Your Dreams, in the 1950s, Macarena Granada, who has become a Hollywood star, returns to Spain to film a blockbuster about Queen Isabella I of Castile.

Cast

• Penélope Cruz as Macarena Granada
• Antonio Resines as Blas Fontiveros
• Neus Asensi as Lucía Gandía
• Ana Belén as Ana
• Javier Cámara as Pepe Bonilla
• Chino Darín as Leo
• Loles León as Trinidad "Trini" Morenos
• Arturo Ripstein as Sam Spiegelman
• Jorge Sanz as Julián Torralba
• Rosa María Sardá as Rosa Rosales
• Santiago Segura as Castillo
• Clive Revill as John Scott
• Cary Elwes as Gary Jones
• Mandy Patinkin as Jordan Berman
• Carlos Areces as Francisco Franco
• Aida Folch
• Jesús Bonilla as Marco Bonilla
• Ramón Barea as Ramón
• J.A. Bayona
• Guillermo Toledo
• Alberto San Juan
• Julio Vélez

Production

The film was produced by Fernando Trueba PC and Atresmedia Cine and it had the participation of Movistar+.^[5] Marta Velasco was responsible for film editing.^[6]

Accolades

Year	Award	Category	Nominee(s)	Result	Ref.
2017	31st Goya Awards	Best Actress	Penélope Cruz	Nominated	[4]
		Best Cinematography	José Luis Alcaine	Nominated
		Best Art Direction	Juan Pedro de Gaspar	Nominated
		Best Production Supervision	Pilar Robla	Nominated
		Best Costume Design	Lala Huete	Nominated

References

1. "The Queen of Spain (2016)". Box Office Mojo.
2. "Aki Kaurismäki, Oren Moverman, Agnieszka Holland, Andres Veiel, and Sally Potter – First Films for the Competition of the Berlinale 2017". Berlinale. 15 December 2016. Retrieved 15 December 2016.
3. Dave McNary (March 4, 2016). "Cary Elwes Starring in Penelope Cruz's 'Queen of Spain' (EXCLUSIVE)". variety.com. Variety. Retrieved April 18, 2016.
4. "Juan Antonio Bayona's 'A Monster Calls' Leads Goya Award Nominations". The Hollywood Reporter. December 14, 2016. Retrieved January 25, 2017.
5. "'La niña de tus ojos' ahora es 'La Reina de España'". El Mundo. 21 June 2016.
6. Weissberg, Jay (13 February 2017). "Berlin Film Review: 'The Queen of Spain'". Variety.

External links

• The Queen of Spain at IMDb
• The Queen of Spain at Rotten Tomatoes