Goya's Ghosts

2006

Action / Biography / Drama / History

19
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 57% · 86 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 57% · 25K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.9/10 10 33031 33K

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Plot summary

Painter Francisco Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition after his muse, Inés, is arrested by the church for heresy. Her family turns to him, hoping that his connection with fanatical Inquisitor Lorenzo, whom he is painting, can secure her release.

Director

Milos Forman Photo
Milos Forman

Top cast

Natalie Portman Photo
Natalie Portman as Inés / Alicia
Stellan Skarsgård Photo
Stellan Skarsgård as Francisco Goya
Javier Bardem Photo
Javier Bardem as Lorenzo
Randy Quaid Photo
Randy Quaid as King Carlos IV
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1.02 GB
1280*688
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 53 min
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2.1 GB
1904*1024
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 53 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by irvingwarner 7 / 10

Period piece, unrelentingly bleak

The acting and production values are of the highest order in "Goya's Ghost". Because I don't get around much anymore, I had not seen Ms Portman in a movie until "Ghost", and was very impressed, for like all the roles in this movie, her's was challenging. Javier Bardem is tough to equal in any movie, and as the 'heavy', (another heavy?!) he is outstanding; Stellan Skarsgård has come a long, long ways since "The Ox", and he has had a mixture of roles, some of them pretty thankless. As Goya, he does very well--a great actor. Natalie Portman--as I was a first timer regards seeing her work, I was bowled over--her role requires a terrible transformation, and makeup only goes so far, acting must be the key ingredient. So, along with the outstanding set designs and production values, Forman created another outstanding period piece. By the way, the actress Blanca Portillo who does the Spanish queen has a key small part--and you'll know her best scene when you see it! The story? It is about a wretched time and wretched people in a position of trust who violate that and prey on whomever they can. I think "Ghost" might not be for those who are not really into period pieces, but I am!
Reviewed by aiculik 8 / 10

Really great

I saw it yesterday on film festival. And it was great.When I was reading the description of the movie, I had some doubts. It seemed it would be yet another film about bad, intolerant catholics and good and democratic atheists. I'm just fed up with that kind of films. But it was not so. In a short - it's a great film with bad description.What it really is about, is that it doesn't matter what principles one believes in if their life is doesn't match these principles. Both inquisitors and French democrats were capable of same brutality - always, of course, in name of some noble idea - love, freedom, equality... It's not sentimental or pathetic and it doesn't try to tell you what is "the only truth". It simply says that its not principles and ideas that are bad - its people. Characters are very human, with many errors - but, at the same time, each of the characters, even "villains" have moments when you will like them. It is also because the film changes perspective several times, and those who were despots become victims.Maybe its not the best Forman's film, but it is very good.
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