Goya's Ghost

Goya a Spanish painter meets a girl.  He paints her picture.  She gets accused of being a Jew and is put to the "Question", a Catholic form of water boarding and told she will be on trail for her confession.  She is raped by another main character and bares a child.  Goya feels that he is responsible for the girl after she gets released from the Inquisition...

Okay now that you understand the story, you know what I could follow this but it lead you  in a fashion of where... what... how?  But history or historic adaptations are not linear.  Sometimes I felt bored watching this movie, other times I was wiggling because I was uncomfortable.  Who wouldn't be when watching the girl being hung with her arms behind her back screaming in pain?

Natalie Portman plays the girl, Ines, she also plays her daughter Alysia.  The daughter was conceived by the rape.  Javier Bardem was the monk, turn revolutionary, and Stellan Skarsgard played Goya, all of the performances were stiff and hard to watch.  

This was worth watching once.  It was a bad movie, but worth watching that first time.  I did not like this one.