El Monstruo de la Fortuna(2024)
Madrid 1635. Queen Isabel de Borbón, nicknamed by the Spanish people “the desired one,” summons the writer Calderón de la Barca to her intimate chambers to give him a very special and dangerous assignment. A secret relationship, an intellectual and liberal woman for her time, a writer who tries to climb socially and be recognized as an artist, a queen who seeks to leave her inheritance in time and the sexual tension between them.
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Madrid 1635. Queen Isabel de Borbón, nicknamed by the Spanish people “the desired one,” summons the writer Calderón de la Barca to her intimate chambers to give him a very special and dangerous assignment. A secret relationship, an intellectual and liberal woman for her time, a writer who tries to climb socially and be recognized as an artist, a queen who seeks to leave her inheritance in time and the sexual tension between them.
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