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PRODUCTION TEAM
Director :
Carlos Saura
Script :
Carlos Saura
Photography :
Vittorio Storaro
Editor :
Julia Ju�niz
Cast :
Francisco Rabal, Jose Coronado, Dafne Fern�ndez, Maribel Verd�, Eulalia Ram�n, Joaqu�n Climent, Cristina Espinosa, Jose Mar�a Pou, Saturnino Garc�a, Carlos Hip�lito
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GOYA IN BORDEAUX
The 82-year-old Francisco Goya, living in exile in Bordeaux with the last of his lovers, Leocadia Zorilla de Weiss, reconstructs the main events of his life for his daughter Rosario. It is a life in which light and darkness continue to alternate, in which the young, ambitious Goya claws his way up the ranks of the court of Charles IV. He learns about fame and fortune, about court intrigues, lies and the games of seduction that are favourite aristocratic sports. He meets the love of his life, the Duchess of Alba, a woman who was an important influence not only on the artist but on the history of her times, a remarkable woman whose life was cut short by a vicious conspiracy. One by one the film unravels the mysteries of an artist who never wavered in his love of his country and its people. The era of light and colour of the Bourbon court gives way to an new era, a darker era, the era of Goya's caprichos. Goya had become deaf and his perspective was changing accordingly. "I have tried to show what Goya was like in his last years, exiled in Bordeaux -- what were his passions, his loves and his hatreds, his hallucinations, his dreams, his demons. All in a world where the imaginary exists side by side with the mundane." -- Carlos Saura
Carlos Saura
Spain's best known director, Carlos Saura was born in 1932 and was strongly influenced, in his childhood, by his pianist mother and his artist older brother. He studied journalism and cinema before opting for the latter and making his directorial debut in 1958 with the short, Cuenca. The following year he made his first feature film, LOS GOLFOS and he quickly moved into the vanguard of the new Spanish cinema. His films include: THE HUNT (1965), PEPPERMINT FRAPP� (1967), THE GARDEN OF DELIGHTS (1970), ANNA AND THE WOLVES (1972), COUSIN ANGELICA (1973), RAISE RAVENS (1975), BLINDFOLD (1978), HURRY HURRY (1980), BLOOD WEDDING (1981), CARMEN (1983), THE STILTS (1984), EL AMOR BRUJO (1985), EL DORADO (1987), THE DARK NIGHT (1989), �AY CARMELA! (1990), Sevillanas (1992), FLAMENCO (1995), PAJARICO (1996) and TANGO (1998). Many of these have been shown at the Montreal World Film Festival.
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