Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz is one of the greatest poets of all times in the Spanish language. She lived in New Spain, now Mexico, in the 17th century, when the position of women had many restrictions. In order to pursue her intellectual interests and talents, she became a nun. Sadly, she was persecuted for heresy and insubordination by some of the most prominent and intolerant leaders of the Catholic church. The story is told in flashbacks, from a nun’s deathbed. This version of her biography underlines the sexual aspects of her life and suggests she had a lesbian relationship with the Viceroy’s wife and that is reflected in her mystical poetry. A well researched and funded costume drama that created some controversy due to the erotic undertones in the story, or a questionable ‘Game of Thrones’ aesthetic celebrating a feminist icon. ‘As love is union, it knows no extremes of distance,’ wrote the poet Sor Juana.
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