Film at Eleven

Reuteurs reports that Milos Forman is to direct a film about Spanish grand master Francisco de Goya starring Javier Bardem and Natalie Portman, focussing on one of Spain’s most bloody chapters, the Inquisition.

“Goya’s Ghosts” tells the story of the last years of the Spanish Inquisition, when the Church tortured and executed suspected Jews, as told by the painter, played by Stellan Skarsgard.

Portman plays Goya’s muse Ines, falsely accused of heresy, while Bardem plays a sinister monk, Brother Lorenzo, the film production company said on Wednesday.

The script is a collaboration between Forman and Jean Claude Carriere, who worked frequently with Luis Bunuel, most notably on The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and Belle de Jour.

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