Following the struggles of Francisco Goya, an aspiring Spanish painter, who finds himself in terrible with the church after the scandal he has in his muse, as the monk describes his work to be a heresy.
A modern sensibility afflicts much of the screenplay, with characters expressing thoughts and opinions for our ears rather than acting as people of that era.
Goya gets lost as the filmmakers turn Spanish history into a chronicle of easy contemporary targets. They don't just hit the social-political bull's-eye -- they obliterate it with a cannon and inadvertently scorch the dramatic landscape all around it.
