Like all painting lovers, Jean-Claude Carrière murmured at paintings.
It is therefore moving to see this storyteller, playwright, philosopher and screenwriter at the Prado, a few weeks before his death in February 2021, bid farewell to
Goya's two
Majas .
Fifty years ago, he confides to the camera of his friend and producer José Luis López-Linares (
The Mystery Jérôme Bosch,
in 2016) that he does not know which he prefers, naked or dressed.
Goya and Carrière is a story that begins with Buñuel, another Aragonese, another deaf, another exacerbated sensitivity (nineteen years of collaboration).
It was through him that the virus was transmitted: a deep, erudite passion for this genius who painted Spain at the time of the great changeover.
This gives a poetic and twilight walk to the sources of a harsh and shimmering kingdom.
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