Penelope Cruz Nude in Volav?runt0 comments

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Posted on 30 Oct 2010 at 1:32pm

AKA: Volav?runt
Director: J.J. Bigas Luna
Country: France, Spain
Language: Spanish, French
Runtime: 90 minutes
Plot Outline: The beautiful Duchess of Alba is sharing a coach passing through Andalusia with artist Francisco de Goya, Prime Minister Manuel de Godey, and Pepita Tudo, a peasant girl. Goya and de Godey are obviously charmed by the Duchess’s exotic beauty and free-spirited attitude, but the Prime Minister is equally smitten with Pepita. The Prime Minister invites her to the royal court in Madrid, where she becomes his mistress and the subject of several of Goya’s paintings. However, Queen Maria Luisa disapproves of de Godey’s new love, and instead arranges for him to marry the Countess de Chinchon, a plain-Jane member of low-level royalty. The Duchess is upset with de Godey’s marriage, as it keeps her away from a collection of royal jewelry she covets. When the Duchess suddenly and mysteriously dies, Goya, de Godey, and Pepita are all murder suspects and must confess where they were and what they were doing at the moments leading up to her death.