Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 114 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- Spain, United States
- Frights
- Moderate
The story
Painter Francisco Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition after his muse, Inés, is arrested by the church for heresy. Her family turns to him, hoping that his connection with fanatical Inquisitor Lorenzo, whom he is painting, can secure her release.
- rape
- religion and supernatural
- heresy
- napoleon bonaparte
- loss
- unwillingly pregnant
- muse
- 18th century
- fictional biography
- spanish inquisition
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Javier Bardem
Lorenzo Casamares
Natalie Portman
Inés Bilbatúa / Alicia
Stellan Skarsgård
Francisco Goya
Randy Quaid
King Carlos IV
- José Luis Gómez — Tomás Bilbatúa
- Michael Lonsdale — Inquisitor General
- Blanca Portillo — Queen María Luisa
- Mabel Rivera — María Isabel Bilbatúa
- Unax Ugalde — Ángel Bilbatúa
- Fernando Tielve — Álvaro Bilbatúa
- David Calder — Monk 1
- Ramón Langa — Hooded Monk
- Manuel de Blas — Pyre Monk
- Andrés Lima — Confiscating Monk
- Concha Hidalgo — Alicia's Duena
- Directed
- Miloš Forman
- Written
- Miloš Forman, Jean-Claude Carrière
Production
- Rating
- 6.6 / 10 · 542 ratings
- Studio
- Xuxa Producciones S.L., The Saul Zaentz Company, KanZaman Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
