“I have not the slightest doubt that if Goya were alive today, he would be a filmmaker”. With these words, the director Carlos Saura was able to find the link that exists between the work of Francisco de Goya and the seventh art, and it was also the reflection that justified the decision that the most important film awards in our country will be named after the surname of the famous artist.
Some awards that the Aragonese director himself – who will also premiere his documentary on February 3 the walls speak– has been collected in several editions and which will once again award him the Goya de Honor 2023, “for his extensive and highly personal creative contribution to the history of Spanish cinema”.
Taking advantage of this fact and in commemoration of one of the great figures of Spanish cinema, FlixOlé has chosen to review the incomparable cinematographic career of Carlos Saura in a collection of films. Includes the premiere of Goya in Bordeaux (1999), a biography that the director dedicated to the master of oil and brush, and for which he won five Goya awards.
[Descubre ‘El camino’, la joya oculta de Ana Mariscal, una diva del franquismo que fue pionera del cine español]
The life and work of a teacher
The feature film is set in the last days of Goya (Francisco Rabal), when the painter, exiled in Bordeaux, lived with Leocadia Zorrilla (Eulàlia Ramon) and her daughter Rosarito (Dafne Fernández). The two of them will be the ones who try to carry his delusions and stubbornness in the best possible way.
The painter will take advantage of the few moments of sanity he has to remember his life and work, and reveal some “secrets, secrets” to Rosarito. Thus, the spectator goes through the different passages of his life with himas the hard blow of deafness, his time at court, the supposed love affair he had with the Duchess of Alba (Maribel Verdú), the political convulsions and the sacrifices he had to make to be later considered one of the most important painters of the history.
The film reviews some of the artist’s most emblematic works, exercising the large canvas screen where creations such as The Naked Maja y The clothed maja, Saturn“The executions” (May 3 in Madrid) and portraits of members of the aristocracy and monarchy. All of them stem from an unclassifiable legacy that crossed the limits of any artistic movement -from neoclassicism and romanticism to feeling the dawn of impressionism with your fingers.
This tribute to the painter was rewarded at the Goya Awards, where the film won the ‘stubborn’ award in the categories of Best Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design and Best Makeup and Hairstyling.
Much more Saura in FlixOlé
Frame ‘Goya in Bordeaux’.
Goya in Bordeaux will be present at the collection on Carlos Saura which is already available on FlixOlé and which includes more than thirty titles. Among them are the most important of his career: The hunt (1966), Peppermint Frappe (1967), Ana and the wolves (1973), Cousin Angelica (1974), Breeding ravens (1976), Blood Wedding (1981), hurry up (1981), Oh, Carmela! (1990) y the seventh day (2004), among others.
The special is named Goya of Honor: Carlos Saura and will be complemented by two other collections that also tie into Academy Awards history: They swept the Goya, which brings together the films that took home several awards; Y Cinema with Goyaa complete list of films that walked the red carpet.
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