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Queens (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Queens' is a 2005 film directed by Manuel Gmez Pereira.
The story follows a group of men who will be marrying in Spain's first same-sex wedding ceremony, and their mothers, who will be attending.
Plot
Magda (Carmen Maura) is the manager of a posh resort hotel in Madrid which will be the site of a mass same-sex marriage ceremony. One of the grooms is Magda's son Miguel (Unax Ugalde), a designer, who will marry his boyfriend scar (Daniel Hendler), son of Ofelia (Betiana Blum), who is "visiting" from Argentina with her dog...
Nuria (Vernica Forqu), a sex addict, is also on her way to attend the ceremony. Her son Narciso (Paco Len) will be marrying his boyfriend Hugo (Gustavo Salmern), whose own parents, Helena (Mercedes Sampietro) and Hector (Tito Valverde), are less enthusiastic.
Meanwhile, actress Reyes (Marisa Paredes) will be attending to watch her son Rafa (Ral Jimnez) marry his boyfriend Jonas (Hugo Silva), the son of her gardener Jacinto (Llus Homar).
Cast
Reception
'Queens' received mixed reviews from critics. Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 43% from 30 critics.
Andre Soares of Alt Film Guide notes "cheesy commercialism and sentimentality aside, Reinas boasts a couple of first-rate performances" and it "delivers more than a few good laughs". Anthony Mardon of abusdecine.com remarks that the "director has managed to bring together the muses of Pedro Almodovar" and "the film enjoys, indeed, irresistible and colorful moments, but the rhythmic, too sawtooth, and some situations vaudevillesques, pulled by the hair, spoil the coherence".
Thomas G. Deveny states in his book 'Migration in Contemporary Hispanic Cinema' in 2012, "it has international stars and casts them as immigrants in a world of luxury".Thomas G. Deveny
See also
* List of Spanish films of 2005
References
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