Queens (film)

Queens
Queens
	Movie poster
Spanish	Reinas
Directed by	Manuel Gómez Pereira
Produced by	José Luis Escolar
Starring	Carmen Maura; Marisa Paredes; Mercedes Sampietro; Verónica Forqué; Unax Ugalde; Paco León; Jorge Perugorría
Cinematography	Juan Amorós
Music by	Bingen Mendizábal
Release date	2005;
Running time	107 minutes
Country	Spain
Language	Spanish

Queens (Spanish: Reinas) is a 2005 film directed by Manuel Gómez 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 Óscar (Daniel Hendler), son of Ofelia (Betiana Blum), who is "visiting" from Argentina with her dog...

Nuria (Verónica Forqué), a sex addict, is also on her way to attend the ceremony. Her son Narciso (Paco León) will be marrying his boyfriend Hugo (Gustavo Salmerón), 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 (Raúl Jiménez) marry his boyfriend Jonas (Hugo Silva), the son of her gardener Jacinto (Lluís Homar).

Cast

Verónica Forqué as Nuria
Carmen Maura as Magda
Marisa Paredes as Reyes
Mercedes Sampietro as Helena
Betiana Blum as Ofelia
Gustavo Salmerón as Hugo
Unax Ugalde as Miguel
Hugo Silva as Jonás
Daniel Hendler as Óscar
Paco León as Narciso
Raúl Jiménez as Rafa
Tito Valverde as Héctor
Lluís Homar as Jacinto
Jorge Perugorría as César
Ginés García Millán as Néstor
José Luis García Pérez as Pasajero Tren
Pep Guinyol as Juez
José Albarrán as Mozo de Estación (station porter)
Quim Capdevila as Recepcionista Hotel (Hotel Receptionist)
Lázaro Aldama as Portero Hotel
Luis Salguero as Médico Urgencias
Pedro Civera as Sergio
Quim Vila as Santiago
José Carlos Yus as Empleado 1
Joan Crosas as Marc
Felipe Andrés as Maitre Restaurante
Guillermo Muñoz as Camarero Restaurante (restaurant waiter)
Daniel Alberto García as Actor Culebrón
Daniel Núñez as Ladrón Minusválido
Sandro Cordero as Dueño Chiringuito
Jaime Ordóñez as Agente Policía
Mariano Peña as Julián
Jesús Ruyman as Jardinero 1 (Gardener)
Mercedes Castro as Mujer Jardinero 1
Eduardo Uceda as Hijo Jardinero 1
Lucina Gil as Mónica
Vicente Colomar as Camarero Restaurante
Yolanda Alzola as Periodista 1 (journalist)
Pablo Vázquez as Periodista 2
Joaquín Oliván as Periodista 3
Claudio Pantaleón as Fotógrafo 1 (photographer)
Fran Fernnández as Fotógrafo 2
Carlos Lorenzo as Policía Antidisturbios
David Salazar as José
Marta Aledo as Chica Organización
Ricardo Castro as Portero Discoteca
Andrea Occhipinti as Chico Organización
Julio Arrojo as Empleado AVE (employee)
José Luis Díaz as Hombre Tren 1
Manuel Vidal as Empleado Catering
Filippo Morelli as Hombre Tren 2
David Agueda as Grupo de baile (Dance group)
Santos Blanco as Grupo de baile
Pedro Antonio Carrasco as Grupo de baile
Juan José Hinojosa as Grupo de baile
Javier Jiménez as Grupo de baile
Mark Vicent Dickers as Grupo de baile

Reception

Queens received mixed reviews from critics. Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 43% from 30 critics.^[1]

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".^[2] 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".^[3] 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".^[4]

References

^ "Reinas (Queens) (2006)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
^ Soares, Andre. "Gay Marriage in 'Queens'". Retrieved 20 March 2019.
^ Mardon, Anthony. "REINAS". Abus de Ciné (in French). Retrieved 20 March 2019.
^ Thomas G. Deveny Migration in Contemporary Hispanic Cinema, p. 105, at Google Books

External links

Reinas at IMDb

[1] "Reinas (Queens) (2006)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 20 March 2019.

[2] Soares, Andre. "Gay Marriage in 'Queens'". Retrieved 20 March 2019.

[3] Mardon, Anthony. "REINAS". Abus de Ciné (in French). Retrieved 20 March 2019.

[4] Thomas G. Deveny Migration in Contemporary Hispanic Cinema, p. 105, at Google Books

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]