La reina de España's reviews
Media reviews
New York Times
"Mr. Trueba skillfully blends genuine and mock period footage to conjure the era, while Mandy Patinkin, as a blacklisted screenwriter; Cary Elwes, as a loutish American leading man; and Clive Revill, sending up John Ford, ably help represent the Hollywood contingent."
The Guardian
"here?s a kind of excitable silliness in this disposable, film-within-a-film comedy from Fernando Trueba, starring Penélope Cruz."
Variety
"Trueba loads his movie with so many inside jokes, it would be impossible to count them all. John Scott is a John Ford knock-off complete with eye-patch, except Ford was a brilliant director until his last completed picture, not some alcoholic has-been."
The Hollywood Reporter
"Camp art director Castillo (Santiago Segura, a good comedian but an actor with a limited range), grande dame actress and recovered alcoholic Rosa Rosales (Rosa Maria Sarda) and Spanish machista Julian Torralba (Jorge Sanz, happily delivering a career-best comic performance). The German stereotypes of Dreams are here swapped for American stereotypes, including the growling, eye-patched John Ford-like director John Scott (a distinguished, 86-year old Clive Revill)."
Roger Ebert
"As a type of tribute to Cruz that collects her many skills into one movie, ?The Queen of Spain? makes its tiny impression on movie history. But we don?t need a film like this to tell us that she?s acting royalty"