"The Queen of Spain", which was specially screened as a non-competition film at the 2017 Berlin Film Festival, is actually a sequel film of "The Girl in the Dream" that is 19 years apart, and it is also made in the film, which also has historical feelings and criticizes fascism.
In the past 19 years, Penelope Cruz has played the beauty of well-known actresses in the film to charm all sentient beings, and even the personality of the characters in the play who shows firm faith and fearlessness is also a kind of frozen spirit, without any trace of the maturity that a 43-year-old woman should have.
"Queen of Spain" is a Spanish mad comedy, depicting the Spanish actress Macarena (played by Penelope Cruz) of "The Girl in the Dream" who returned to her hometown in honor and prepared to shoot the blockbuster film "Queen of Spain", which tells the legendary life of Queen Isabella I.
On the other hand, Blas, a great director who had worked with Macarena, was imprisoned by the dictatorship and sent to a concentration camp to do hard work. When Macarena learned of this, she decided to go to the rescue, first disguised as Brass's daughter and sneaking into the concentration camp to visit Brass, and later calling on her colleagues on the set to join in the secret operation to save Brass.
In terms of textual concepts that use "filming work" as a cover to rescue political victims, "Queen of Spain" is the Spanish version of "Escape from Tehran", but this Spanish film uses the chaotic narrative of human comedy.
Even if you don't have a comprehensive understanding of Spanish culture, we can still see a lot of fun in the life of the Spanish actress played by Penelope Cruz in "Queen of Spain".
For example, this actress is too beautiful to have the ability to charm all living people, and in the film, she was once closely kissed by another actress during her makeup break, and after she dodged it, she had to make small talk about "You are not the first person to do this, Garbo has done the same thing."
Greta Garbo is the Queen of Silent Tablets, the goddess of icebergs, because she is unmarried and childless, extremely mysterious, so there are many rumors.
Because Hitler praised Garbo as "the only person who could approach me without a body search, because her face was the limit of human evolution". The scene is used to add to the scene at the end of the picture when the Spanish dictator Franco approaches Macarena.
In addition, the big star played by Penelope Cruz also had a very strong private life performance in that era, whether it was an open sexual concept, dressing up as a knight, riding a horse to rescue an old lover, or not only in the play, but even in the entire rescue operation She also played the role of a female leader.
This complex and sophisticated actress expresses great innocence and conviction in the vitality of life, and her aura almost spreads from the play to the real soul of Penelope Cruz outside the play.
Whether you see Penelope Cruz when you watch Queen of Spain, or Macarena played by Penelope Cruz, or Even Queen Isabella I of Spain played by Macarena, honestly, who you think she does not detract from the texture of the film", which is a kind of unruly common existence in the film.
Not only Macarena, played by Penelope Cruz, all the female characters in the play have similar behaviors in promoting female consciousness, lesbian actors who marry gay men, assistant colleagues who live with female superstars, pragmatic old women who resolutely remarry after the disappearance of their husbands, and old female characters who have been in the theater for many years and are selfish but still have a conscience.
These European women, each of them can not match the beauty of Penelope Cruz, but they all have a self-confidence and pride as cultural people, perhaps very noisy but still hold an enviable elegant soul, if there is a European woman where is the most beautiful? Then I would say: This is the light.