If there's a basic lesson to be gleaned from Merchant-Ivory's misbegotten Surviving Picasso, it's that the further a biopic gets from an artist's work, the less compelling his or her personal history ...

"Goya in Bordeaux" is a portrait of the artist as an old man. Directed by the Spaniard Carlos Saura, it's a rhapsodic piece, theatricalized and artificial, that ventures stylistically toward the dance ...

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Loan exhibitions attract attention not only because they show the work of great artists but because they give the public a chance to view intimately the trappings of private wealth. Both these ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on X (Opens in new window) Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Cinema is a visual medium, yet most films even “art” films ...

During the past two decades, Spanish writer-director Carlos Saura’s films have increasingly come to resemble guilty pleasures, all sumptuous surfaces and, when the subject has been dancing, spiked by ...

Though it dramatizes the life of a painter long dead, Goya in Bordeaux is completely convincing as a portrait of the artist. That authentic air flourishes even as writer-director Carlos Saura piles on ...

In Brief: While it's certainly visually striking and avoids being a standard biopic, Carlos Saura's Goya in Bordeaux comes with its own set of problems. First of all, Saura assumes that the viewer ...

In the very first shot from Goya in Bordeaux, a bloody cow carcass morphs into the face of dying artist Francisco Goya. This is a biography film without boundaries. Director and writer Carlos Saura ...