Screenings

‘Goya in Bordeaux (1999)’ Screening During Film in the Metro October Series

Monday, Oct 6, 2014
6:30pm -> 8:30pm
Film in the Metro October Series

Metro Al Madina

This monthly cycle of films is brought to you by Metro Al Madina and picked by film director Rania Rafei.

The films follow a different theme each month. This month’s theme is: paint.

About the Movie
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, particularly his relationship with the Duchess of Alba, his discovery of how he wanted to paint (insight provided by Velázquez’s work), and his lifelong celebration of the imagination. Throughout, his reveries become tableaux of his paintings.

Director: Carlos Saura
Writers: Carlos Saura, Luigi Scattini (dialogue: Italian version)
Stars: Francisco Rabal, José Coronado, Dafne Fernández
100 min

Free Entrance

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