The Goya Murders

The Goya Murders (Spanish: El asesino de los caprichos) is a 2019 Spanish-Belgian crime thriller film directed by Gerardo Herrero and written by Ángela Armero which stars Maribel Verdú and Aura Garrido alongside Roberto Álamo, Ginés García-Millán, Daniel Grao and Ruth Gabriel.

The Goya Murders
Theatrical release poster
SpanishEl asesino de los caprichos
Directed byGerardo Herrero
Screenplay byÁngela Armero
Produced byGerardo Herrero
Starring
CinematographyDavid Omedes
Edited byTeresa Font
Music byVanessa Garde
Production
companies
  • Tornasol Films
  • Los asesinatos de Goya AIE
  • Entre Chien et Loup
Distributed byA Contracorriente Films
Release dates
  • 7 October 2019 (2019-10-07) (Sitges)
  • 18 October 2019 (2019-10-18) (Spain)
Countries
  • Spain
  • Belgium
LanguageSpanish

Plot

A couple of police investigators with different backgrounds and antagonistic personalities (Carmen Cobos and Eva González) track a serial killer who starts to leave a trail of crime scenes mirroring the scenes from Francisco Goya's Los caprichos in Madrid.[1][2][3][4]

Cast

Production

A Spanish-Belgian co-production, the film was produced by Tornasol and Los asesinatos de Goya AIE alongside Entre Chien et Loup, with the participation of RTVE and Movistar+ and support from ICAA and the Madrid and Navarra regional administrations.[7] It was shot in Madrid, Pamplona and Brussels.[8]

Release
Aura Garrido, Maribel Verdú, and Daniel Grao during the presentation of the film at the 2019 Sitges Film Festival.

The film screened out of competition at the 52nd Sitges Film Festival in October 2019.[9][10] Distributed by A Contracorriente Films,[7] The Goya Murders was theatrically released in Spain on 18 October 2019.

Reception

Raquel Hernández Luján of HobbyConsolas scored 58 out of 100 points ("so-so"), considering that "its anticlimactic script squanders a visually appealing" premise, assessing the Verdú and Garrido duo to be the best thing about the film, while citing the focus on a personal debacle instead of the police subplot, the characters making stupid decisions and the "disappointing" ending as the worst elements about it.[4]

Mireia Mullor of Fotogramas rated the film 2 out of 5 stars, highlighting the tandem formed by Verdú and Garrido as the best thing about it, while resenting the inability to deliver "anything more than a cliché-filled thriller".[11]

Francisco Marinero of El Mundo's Metrópoli scored 2 out of 5 stars citing the presence of very skilled performers as a positive point, while pointing out at "a contrived plot with countless clichés of the genre" as a negative point.[12]

Janire Zurbano of Cinemanía gave the film 3 out of 5 stars, considering that it "is predictable from its approach to the composition of its characters", yet it manages to entertain, "while the talent of the Verdú-Garrido tandem does the rest".[13]

Javier Ocaña of El País underscored the film to be "entertaining, it has a good pace and some interesting points" yet, in addition to certain unevenness in the supporting performances, the result falls short because of the stereotypes and the plot predictability.[2]

See also

References
  1. Úbeda-Portugués, Alberto (15 October 2019). "Los estrenos del 18 de octubre. 'El asesino de los Caprichos'". Aisge.
  2. Ocaña, Javier (18 October 2019). "Clase alta, clase media". El País.
  3. "Un relat previsible en un thriller rutinari". Regió7. 26 October 2019.
  4. Hernández Luján, Raquel (17 October 2019). "Crítica de El asesino de los caprichos, con Maribel Verdú y Aura Garrido". HobbyConsolas.
  5. "El asesino de los caprichos". Catálogo de Cinespañol. ICAA. Retrieved 19 May 2022.
  6. "El cine español ahora se meterá en las casas de los venezolanos". eluniversal.com. 14 October 2020.
  7. "'El Asesino de los Caprichos' – estreno en cines 18 de octubre". Audiovisual451. 17 October 2019.
  8. Silvestre, Juan (18 July 2019). "Cartel, en primicia, de 'El asesino de los caprichos'". Fotogramas.
  9. Guillem, Jordi (8 October 2019). "Maribel Verdú aterra a Sitges amb "El asesino de los caprichos"". Diari de Terrassa.
  10. Pumares, Carlos (7 October 2019). "Goya en el Festival de Sitges". La Razón.
  11. Mullor, Mirea (18 October 2019). "Crítica de 'El asesino de los caprichos'". Fotogramas.
  12. Marinero, Francisco (17 October 2019). "El asesino de los caprichos: Admirador perverso". Metrópoli – via El Mundo.
  13. "El asesino de los caprichos". Cinemanía. 14 October 2019 – via 20minutos.es.
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