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Goya In Bordeaux

1999, Movie, R, 94 mins

Goya In Bordeaux: Review

This film's splendid visuals suit the subject, Spain's greatest painter, but its stilted dramatics are wholly at odds with Francisco de Goya's tumultuous life and times. Its greatest moment is its first; in the tremendously witty opening shot, the viscera of a gutted slaughterhouse cow morph into the ancient, scarred face of Goya himself, played with raspy gruffness by the veteran Spanish actor Paco Rabal (L'ECLISSE). Disoriented and close to the end of his life, Goya is sit... read more leave a comment