Goya in Bordeaux

Lola 2002, Italian International Films/Egeda

The figure of Francisco de Goya has had different approaches in the form of biopics that have highlighted the genius of the Spanish painter. Saura used Paco Rabal to address the later years of the painter, exiled and deaf, and uses his work to illustrate his own way of understanding the past of a country affected by war and political division. The photography of Vittorio Storaro, Saura's recurring collaborator, creates a visual composition that explicitly dialogues with the painter's different imaginaries.

Synopsis: The famous Spanish painter Francisco de Goya, over eighty years old, is exiled in Bordeaux with his last lover and his daughter Rosario. On his deathbed he remembers the best moments of his life, as if a walk through his work was about him.