Goya en Burdeos (1999)

Director:

Carlos Saura

Writers:

Carlos Saura (writer)
Luigi Scattini (dialogue: Italian version)

Release Date:

12 November 1999 (Spain)

Genre:

Biography | Drama | War

Plot:

Francisco Goya (1746-1828), deaf and ill, lives the last years of his life in voluntary exile in Bordeaux...

Plot Keywords:

Bordeaux | Flashback | Duchess | Painting | Dream Sequence

Awards:

12 wins & 9 nominations

Cast

Francisco Rabal	...	Goya
José Coronado	...	Goya joven
Dafne Fernández	...	Rosario (also as Dafne Fernádez)
Eulalia Ramón	...	Leocadia
Maribel Verdú	...	Duquesa de Alba
Joaquín Climent	...	Moratín
Cristina Espinosa	...	Pepita Tudó
Josep Maria Pou	...	Godoy (as José María Pou)
Saturnino García	...	Cura / San Antonio
Concha Leza	...	Mujer en Andalucía
Franco di Francescantonio	...	Doctor en Andalucía
Carlos Hipólito	...	Juan Valdés
Manuel de Blas	...	Salcedo
Pedro Azorín	...	Braulio Poe
Emilio Gutiérrez Caba	...	José de la Cruz

Also Known As:

Goya in Bordeaux (UK) (USA)
Goya (Italy)

MPAA:

Rated R for some sexuality and violent imagery.

Runtime:

Argentina:107 min | Canada:102 min | Germany:106 min | Spain:106 min

Country:

Spain | Italy

Language:

Spanish | French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.00 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Certification:

Australia:M | Argentina:Atp | Finland:K-12 | France:U | Germany:12 | Hong Kong:IIB | Peru:14 | Singapore:R(A) | Sweden:11 | UK:15 | USA:R

Company:

Italian International Film

Goofs:

Factual errors: In some copies on the film, when Goya's daughter Rosario is showing him her drawing, sitting on an easel in the background we see "La lechera de Burdeos/The Milkmaid of Bordeaux", one of the artist's last paintings. The image we see is reversed - the milkmaid is facing to the right and in the original she faces to the left. This is so due to the fact that the negative of some DVDs and some release prints is inverted in a brief middle section of the film that includes this scene. Another scene is that in which he is commissioned to paint the frescoes of San Antonio de la Florida Chapel.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Frida (2002)

Soundtrack:

Largo

few good pictures, but very boring

Having Goya's exciting paintings on my mind I expected something different. Goya's life must have been interesting, but the film left out most of it. Every piece of story which could have been shown in a slightly more entertaining way (e.g. the plot against the Marquesa or how he worked himself to success) have been dropped before they really started. Instead, the movie got stuck in endless monologues and lulling dialogues. Some scenes seemed to be made for a theatric play, and I thought they didn't belong into a motion picture. I also missed a clear explanation of the historical and political setting. I did not fully understand Goya's relation to the French nor his political role in Spain. Nonetheless, I liked most of the transitions of his paintings into film sequences. But overall, I can only give 5/10.