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Natalie Portman as Ines and Javier Bardem as Brother Lorenzo in Milos

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Forman's Goya's Ghosts

Falsely Accused

Director supplies unexpected
Inquisition, with Portman starring.

Tom Tugend

Jewish Telegraphic Agency

T

he parents who raised Oscar-
winning director Milos
Forman were Protestants, but
both perished in Nazi concentration
camps.
The director's adoptive father dis-
tributed "forbidden" books to his
students during the Nazi occupa-
tion and was sent to a concentration
camp. Amazingly, he was returned to
Prague to stand trial, was even acquit-
ted, but nevertheless was shipped to
Buchenwald, where he perished in 1944.
A year earlier, Forman's mother,
Anna, had suffered the same fate:
After being arrested, she was sent to
Auschwitz and died there.
"Nobody knows why:' Forman told
JTA from his Connecticut home. "It
was like the Inquisition. They grabbed
people and nobody knew why'
The analogy is deliberate, an inten-
tional link to his latest film, Goya's
Ghosts, which opens Friday, Aug. 3, at
the Maple Art Theatre in Bloomfield
Township. It's a multilayered story, a
beautifully photographed art tour and
a history lesson with multiple helpings
of an impressive Natalie Portman.
The year is 1792, and while most of
Europe has thrown off the shackles
of the Roman Catholic Church's Holy
Inquisition, it still wields its power in
Spain.
Caught in its toils is Ines, played by
Portman, the daughter of a wealthy
Christian businessman whose lovely
face has made her a favorite model of
the great court painter Francisco Goya.
Ines runs afoul of zealous Church
spies, who finger her as a "Judaizer,"

a forced convert to Christianity who
"relapses into observing Jewish ritu-
als" when she declines a plate of pork
at a public inn. Her nemesis, torturer
and eventual seducer is chief inquisi-
tor Brother Lorenzo, impressively por-
trayed by Spanish actor Javier Bardem.
Ultimately the inquisitor is disgraced,
but not before fathering Ines' daughter.
When Napoleon conquers Spain in
1808, the Inquisition is abolished, the
prison doors are thrown open and
Ines emerges as a half-deranged hag.
She undertakes a desperate search
for her illegitimate daughter, who
has become the beautiful prostitute
Alicia, also portrayed by Portman in
a remarkable double — well, actually
triple — performance.
The film is the latest Forman, a
Czech native whose biological father
was Jewish, in a directing career
that also includes One Flew Over the
Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus, Ragtime and
The People vs. Larry Flynt.
"I believe that the most important
conflict in the history of mankind is
between the individual and institu-
tions," Forman said. "Man creates
institutions, which then assume total
power and believe that they own man.
That's the theme of Goya's Ghosts."
Forman doubts this struggle will
ever end.
"After each war, after each mass kill-
ing, we all scream, 'Never again:" he
said. "Then we do it again because we
never learn from history" 17

Goya's Ghosts is scheduled
to open Friday, Aug. 3, at the
Maple Art Theatre in Bloomfield
Township. (248) 263-2111.

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