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Goya in Bordeaux

1999 · 1h 40m · R Drama, History
Directed by Carlos Saura

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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.

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The effort conveys the clumsy earnestness of an elaborately produced high school pageant.

Stephen Holden, New York Times
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Worth a look.

Robert Horton, Film.com
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Lushly photographed and grandly conceived, Carlos Saura's Goya in Bordeaux never comes alive.

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten

A plodding production.

Peter Stack, San Francisco Chronicle

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