If A Movie Where Stellan Skarsgard Plays A Famous Painter And Javier Bardem Plays A Seedy Priest Sounds Interesting, Check Out This 2006 Film

Stellan Skarsgard with a worried expression on his face in Goya's Ghosts.

Do you want to know one of my favorite paintings? It's Francisco Goya's Saturn Devouring His Son. One of Goya's “Black paintings,” which he apparently did right on one of his own walls, is the image of a crazed Saturn (a.k.a. the titan, Cronus, in Greek Mythology) taking chomps out of one of his children and has always fascinated (and terrified!) me.

So, when I heard that there was a movie called Goya's Ghosts that starred one of the GOATS of acting, Stellan Skarsgard, and another living legend, Javier Bardem, I knew I just had to watch it. And, watch it I did!