Film Preview: Goya's Ghosts July 13, 2007

Films at the High will be presenting a special preview screening of Goya's Ghosts at the Richard H. Rich Theatre on Friday, July 13. Proceeds from this event will benefit the upcoming 22nd annual Latin American Film Festival. Admission for this film is $10 general admission, students, seniors, Museum members, and Patron-level members.

From longtime collaborators and Academy Award winners Milos Forman and Saul Zaentz (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Amadeus), Goya’s Ghosts is a sweeping historical epic told through the eyes of celebrated Spanish painter Francisco Goya (Stellan Skarsgard). Set against the backdrop of political turmoil at the end of the Spanish Inquisition and the start of the invasion of Spain by Napoleon's army, the film captures the essence and beauty of Goya's work, which is best known for both the colorful depictions of the royal court and its people and grim depictions of the brutality of war and life in 18th century Spain. Javier Bardem is Brother Lorenzo, an enigmatic, cunning member of the Inquisition's inner circle who becomes infatuated with Goya's teenage muse, Ines (Natalie Portman), when she is falsely accused of heresy and sent to prison. (Spain, 2006, 114 minutes.) In English.

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