Maribel Verdu Nude in Goya in Bordeaux0 comments

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Posted on 22 Jan 2010 at 11:14am

Genre: Drama
Director: Carlos Saura
Theatrical Release: September 15, 2000
US DVD Release: January 30, 2001
Plot Outline: Francisco Goya (1746-1828), deaf and ill, lives the last years of his life in voluntary exile in Bordeaux, a Liberal protesting the oppressive rule of Ferdinand VII. He’s living with his much younger wife Leocadia and their daughter Rosario. He continues to paint at night, and in flashbacks stirred by conversations with his daughter, by awful headaches, and by the befuddlement of age, he relives key times in his life,particularly his relationship with the Duchess of Alba, his discovery of how he wanted to paint (insight provided by Vel?zquez’s work), and his lifelong celebration of the imagination.Throughout, his reveries become tableaux of his paintings.