It can be challenging enough to have two mothers on hand for a wedding: what happens when hundreds of gay men and their mothers converge on Madrid for a mass gay wedding? Find out in Manuel Gomez Pereira's madcap comedy featuring a cast of Pedro Almodovar’s favorite divas.
A couple days before the wedding, as their sons are trying to cope with the stress of looming marriage, the lives of the mothers become entwined through a serious of wild scenarios. Judge Helena (Mercedes Sampietro) reluctantly must preside over the ceremony. Magda (Carmen Maura, Volver, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown), the owner of the hotel where the ceremony and reception will take place, is hosting the guests while trying to fend off a strike threatened by her chef/ lover, and getting advice from her husband via satellite. Nymphomaniac mother Nuria (Verónica Forqué, Kika, Matador) finally loses all control and must face her son’s exasperation with her uncontrollable tendencies. Wealthy Reyes (Marisa Paredes, Talk to Her, All About My Mother) finally allows her attraction to her gardner, who happens to be the father of her son's future husband, to surface. And Argentinean Ofelia (Betiana Blum) arrives with her dog, both of whom are immediately disliked by her son’s partner.As these very different mothers, played by 5 of Spain's top actresses, deal with their own emotions, reactions and uncertainties, mayhem unfolds throughout the weekend in a hilarious clash of sexuality, passion, and love.
Veteran Spanish director Gomez Pereira, long respected both in Spain and around the world for his edgy, clever and wildly entertaining films, turns his attention to same sex marriage, revealing that weddings are weddings, complicated and fraught no matter who's getting married. And the emotional roller coasters aren't confined to the women: who says men can't be nervous brides?
DELICIOUS!
--Octavio Roca, Miami New Times
TOUR DE FORCE PERFORMANCES
from a veritable who’s who of Spanish actresses
--Paul Birchall, LA City Beat
FOUR STARS!
--Dan Avery, Time Out
“'Queens' delivers highly on the laugh front with some great performances.”
-Jonathan Keane, London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
“Nobody has more fun than the characters in a Spanish comedy, and that holds true for this fictional story of the first 10 gay couples to be
legally wed in Spain, in a spectacle broadcast live on TV.”
- Marc Breindel, Advocate.com
OUT, PROUD AND RIDICULOUSLY FUNNY!
Delicious, sophisticated hilarity and luxuriously cast.
--Octavio Roca, MIAMI NEW TIMES
“So camp, so Spanish and so good. Excellent humour and stereotypical characters that we can all relate to. Over dramatic? No it's a gay film. Glossy, Spanish gay sums it up!”
-Russell, London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
