Goya's Ghosts
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Javier Bardem, Jos Luis Gmez, Natalie Portman, Randy Quaid, Stellan Skarsgrd Director: Milos Forman Brand: Sony Writer: Milos Forman Writer: Jean-Claude Carrire DVD: Region Code 99 Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1 Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1 Running Time: 113 minutes DVD Release Date: 2008-02-26 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment |
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Movie Reviews of Goya's Ghosts
Movie Review: Unbelievably naive and historically inaccurate
Summary: 1 Stars
Apart from the beautiful costumes, this movie has practically no redeeming features. The directing is uninspired, the acting (with the possible exception of, occasionally, Javier Bardem) unexceptional, the plot naive and improbable, and the historical facts badly stereotyped or totally wrong. The Spanish Inquisition has been portrayed more accurately in the Monty Python skits than in this film. Goya, who is supposed to be the main character, is nothing of the sort, we don't learn anything important about his psychological makeup, his opinions or even his art (although I appreciated the educational value of the demonstration of the printing process, even though the latter demonstrates the aquaforte-making technique while Goya's 'Caprichos' were aquatints, moreover produced in 1799 and not, as the movie states, in 1792.) The film is also full of crude anti-religious and especially anti-Catholic bias. I am surprised that it was Milos Forman who had written and directed this abysmal flop.