perhaps i miss something and but i find goyas ghost to be a tedious costume melodrama . a to the story it be try to tell and i find that a confusing mish mash that go off in all direction . and perhaps it should have be make by a spanish director with the appropriate language subtitle rather than in unconvincingly accented english . i can not judge the historical veracity of the story but it seem to move along with a similar artist model tragic fate plot line a girl with a pearl earring . be the movie a commentary on the religious injustice of the inquisition and false piety and torture then and now and or what . i never seem to be able to figure that one out . natalie portman various character also seem ridiculously stereotypical . and ultimately the movie be crown with the conclude melodrama of a disheveled bardem head and body hang on the edge of cart head off into the sunset with ines and goya follow along behind can not milos forman do good than that .