Reinas (2005)

User Rating:

6.9/10   

Director:

Manuel Gómez Pereira

Writers:

Yolanda García Serrano (writer)
Manuel Gómez Pereira (collaborating writer)

Release Date:

8 April 2005 (Spain)

Genre:

Comedy | Romance

Tagline:

Here come the grooms...and their mothers!

Plot:

Five mothers cope with the drama that surrounds their gay sons at a mass wedding.

Plot Keywords:

Hotel | Gay | Wedding | Gay Wedding | Gardener

Cast

Verónica Forqué	...	Nuria
Carmen Maura	...	Magda
Marisa Paredes	...	Reyes
Mercedes Sampietro	...	Helena
Betiana Blum	...	Ofelia
Gustavo Salmerón	...	Hugo
Unax Ugalde	...	Miguel
Hugo Silva	...	Jonás
Daniel Hendler	...	Óscar
Paco León	...	Narciso
Raúl Jiménez	...	Rafa
Fernando Valverde	...	Héctor (as Tito Valverde)
Lluís Homar	...	Jacinto
Jorge Perugorría	...	César
Ginés García Millán	...	Néstor

Also Known As:

Queens (USA) (new title)

MPAA:

Rated R for sexual content, brief nudity and language.

Runtime:

107 min

Country:

Spain

Language:

Spanish

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Brazil:14 | Hong Kong:IIB | Hungary:16 | USA:R | Argentina:13 | Spain:13

Filming Locations:

Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Company:

Warner Bros. Pictures de España

Trivia:

Director Manuel Gomez Pereira wanted four former Pedro Almodovar "muses" in the cast of "Reinas": Carmen Maura, Marisa Paredes, Veronica Forque, and Victoria Abril. When Victoria Abril declined his offer, he had to settle for just three of them.

Goofs:

Continuity: At the beginning of the film, the train is moving from left to right, in the same scene and seat, then it moves from right to left, and seconds later it moves in a right to left direction again.

Quotes:

Nuria: I'm always free, even when I'm married.

Movie Connections:

Remade as Untitled Reinas Remake (2011)

Soundtrack:

Ya me siento mejó

Reinas is a must see film!

I saw this film recently as part of the Manchester celebrations of the enactment of the Civil Partnership Act and I was expecting from the write up a foreign language film with an ethereal link to this specific political moment in time. However it was a fantastically funny film! The film follows a series of couples over the weekend prior to the first gay weddings in Spain.

The delight of the film for me was the intensity of the spectoral gaze upon the relationships between 'gay in-laws' and between gay men and their mothers. The film refuses any clichés.

The defining aspect of this film that makes it excellent is that I totally forgot about the subtitles and just lived the action! The other defining aspect of the films greatness is that this was the first film I have watched at the cinema since 'The Full Monty' that had a raucous round of applause verging onto a standing ovation!