Goya in Bordeaux
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Movie Reviews of Goya in Bordeaux
Movie Review: Bold and beautiful
Summary: 3 Stars
It seems that the director approached making this film on the pretext that the viewer knows something about Goya, his art, and the time in which he lived. Without some of this background information, it may be rather difficult to watch. I wasn't particularly fond of the use of scrims, but it was interesting to see how their use translated on film-in fact, the whole film is approached more like a staged work than as cinema. In the end, it works. Incredible acting, great music, good representation of Goya's works.Movie Review: Goya in Bordeaum
Summary: 1 Stars
I actually went to a theatre to see this piece of art house trash. I don't know where to start, the brief synopsis is what got me interested in the first place but this film is totally pointless, very, very dull and the characters are void of any relevance to the film itself.
Beware, the film starts off relatively promising enough but spirals quickly into complete stupidity, minus 3 stars. Why I watched the whole thing is still a mystery to me. Its a disturbingly senseless film with a lot of tedious footage that drives you to despise what you're looking at and in some cases I walked away for a while; however, I think causing those feelings in the viewer was part of the intent of the filmmaker and the film leaves you to ponder utter boredom.
Most of the screen time is spent by a 500 lb old geezer who's lost his brain. The art direction is appalling, probably worked on by a Spanish grad student in pastel colors. I wish the filmmaker would have cut more of the meaningless scenes in the editing of this film though but then he wouldn't have a film left. It just went on too long and had no purpose, much like Ayn Rand's so called philosophy.
Movie Review: Buy the soundtrack.
Summary: 1 Stars
Director Saura has obviously seen Raul Ruiz's extraordinary adaptation of Proust's novel, 'Time Regained'. His plot - an old man looks back at his life and the way it shaped his art - and narrative techniques - the blurring of history, dream, memory, imagination, art; the easy weaving through time, where the same character at different ages walk in the same frame, or a character looks from one decade at a scene from another; the shifting mise-en-scene emphasising artifice, a lack of solidity, fragility, provisionality.Comparison with Ruiz only reveals Saura's faults - his stylistic heavy-handedness; the banality of his ideas; his reduction of everything to dance (there is a massacre sequence here of gobsmacking inappropriateness); the visual timidity (unable to match Goya, he defaces his works); the inability to construct compelling narrative or character. The one constant in Saura's career has been great music, and the insistent period dance rhythms almost convince you that you're enjoying yourself.