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Goya's Ghosts (Los Fantasmas de Goya)

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"Goya's Ghosts" is a sweeping historical epic, told through the eyes of celebrated Spanish painter Francisco Goya. Set against the backdrop of political turmoil at the end of the Spanish Inquisition and start of the invasion of Spain by Napoleon's army, the film captures the essence and beauty of Goya's work which is best known for both the colorful depictions of the royal court and its people, and his grim depictions of the brutality of war and life in 18th century Spain. Brother Lorenzo, an enigmatic, cunning member of the Inquisition's inner circle who becomes infatuated with Goya's teenage muse, Ines, when she is falsely accused of heresy and sent to prison.

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Goya (Stellan Skarsgard) and a portrait of Inquisition priest Brother Lorenzo (Javier Bardem).

A painter among the powerful, witness to brutality

By Carrie Rickey, Inquirer Movie Critic

Posted 07/20/2007

There is so little emotionally or intellectually at stake in most popular entertainment that Goya's Ghosts, Milos Forman's challenging, compelling and wildly uneven film, shoots like a cannonball into the solar plexus. I can't remember when I've been so physically and mentally shattered. » Read more

MPAA rating:

for violence, disturbing images, some sexual content and nudity

Cast:

José Luis Gómez; Stellan Skarsgård; Randy Quaid; Mabel Rivera; Natalie Portman; Blanca Portillo; Michael Lonsdale; Javier Bardem

Directed by:

Milos Forman

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