Aragón in movies
List of films set in Aragón or Films that show Aragonese characters or about Aragon.
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- DirectorEduardo JimenoShort documentary where people come out of a church in Zaragoza.
- DirectorPedro AlmodóvarStarsEmma SuárezAdriana UgarteDaniel GraoAfter a casual encounter, a brokenhearted woman decides to confront her life and the most important events involving her estranged daughter.
- DirectorBigas LunaStarsPenélope CruzStefania SandrelliAnna GalienaWhen a mother disapproves of her son's lover, she hires an underwear model and former bullfighter to seduce her away.
- DirectorPaula OrtizStarsMaribel VerdúLeticia DoleraLuisa GavasaInterwoven emotions and struggles of three women of different generations aiming to build the lives they desire, their own future, love and dreams. All of them lose the love of their lives and they will have to pursue their happiness and fight for their dignity in a dark and hostile word.
- DirectorRidley ScottStarsOrlando BloomEva GreenLiam NeesonBalian of Ibelin travels to Jerusalem during the Crusades of the 12th century, and there he finds himself as the defender of the city and its people.
- DirectorAgustí VillarongaStarsMarcel BorràsNúria PrimsOriol PlaIn war-torn Spain, during the tumultuous 1937, a Republican young officer will hopelessly fall for the charms of a deceitful femme-fatale who will not hesitate to use him in her best interest.
- DirectorLuis García BerlangaStarsAlfredo LandaGuillermo MontesinosSantiago RamosA platoon of mismatched soldiers crosses the front-line to steal the bull that the enemy is to fight on the village's patron-saint's day. In addition to ruining the nationals' celebration, they want to butcher the animal to feed their famished troops. They get caught in the procession and must go through a series of funny and not-so-funny incidents before they can return to their side.
- DirectorGuillermo del ToroStarsIvana BaqueroAriadna GilSergi LópezIn the Falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.
- DirectorPaula OrtizStarsInma CuestaÁlex GarcíaAsier EtxeandiaAs the Bride and the Groom prepare for the wedding in the pale desert, a tale of unappeased desires, forbidden yearnings, and conflicted choices unfolds. Now, three lovers stand powerless before the true nature of man. Is fate unavoidable?
- DirectorManuel LombarderoStarsJuan Diego BottoMiguel Ángel GarcíaFaye DunawayIn the turmoil of the Spanish Civil War, a young man comes of age sexually, through a string of relationships with a wide range of mature, older women.
- DirectorMiguel Ángel LamataStarsMiguel Ángel AparicioMayte NavalesMiguel Ángel AijónTwo former Catholic school classmates want to be movie makers despite their total lack of talent, contacts, or even a story to tell.
- DirectorNacho G. VelillaStarsCarmen MachiLeo HarlemCarlos SantosA town almost ruined. A winning lottery ticket. A lot of troubles in progress.
- DirectorJulio MedemStarsCarmelo GómezEmma SuárezKarra ElejaldeAngel, an exterminator recently released from a mental hospital, comes to rid a small Spanish town of tiny grubs in the soil. The local wine-making industry has found these pests responsible for giving their product an "earthy" taste that has divided local opinion. While in town, Angel becomes involved with two beautiful and very different women, and impacts their lives on a grand scale. Can either of these women accept the fact that Angel travels with a "ghost" of himself, or that he routinely speaks with the deceased townspeople?
- DirectorCarlos SauraStarsGeraldine ChaplinJosé Luis López VázquezAlfredo MayoJulian, a middle-aged single doctor, meets his childhood friend Pablo again. The latter is back from Africa and has just married a beautiful young blonde, Elena. Julian falls in love with her and tries to seduce her, but she mockingly pushes him away from her. He then finds that Ana, his nurse, bears a troubling resemblance to Elena. He decides to gradually transform Ana into Elena...
- DirectorEmilio Martínez LázaroStarsAntonio ResinesFernando RamalloMaribel VerdúSet in 1974, during last rales of Francoist dictatorship, plot follows journey of salesman Lozano and his son Felipe driving a Citroën DS along Spanish coast.
- DirectorMilos FormanStarsJavier BardemNatalie PortmanStellan SkarsgårdPainter Francisco Goya faces a scandal involving his muse, who is labeled a heretic by a monk.
- DirectorFernando ColomoStarsJordi MollàErnesto AlterioHedy BurressTwo students are arrested for painting revolutionary graffiti on the university walls. They escape from the camp and flee with two American girls, disguised as rich young men who are showing Spain to two tourists.
- DirectorJosé Luis BorauStarsImperio ArgentinaAlfredo LandaCarmen MauraElvira, the daughter of a disgraced military, entered a convent very young. Some years later, because of a crisis, she decides to leave the religious life and returns to her home in Madrid, looking for the moral support of her beloved nanny. However, the country has changed so much during her years of confinement that has little or nothing to do with her childhood memories.
- DirectorLupe Pérez GarcíaStarsJesús AbizandaManuel AguileraJose Manuel AyudaWhat is, nowadays, the sense of making Antigone to emerge from her millenary lethargy? The amorphous woman follows an older, chaotic law, both animal and tribal at once.
- DirectorDaniel CalparsoroStarsEloy AzorínEduardo NoriegaRubén OchandianoThe tragic story of a platoon of Spanish soldiers, in the hell of the Kosovo war in 2000
- DirectorMario CamusStarsCarmen MauraJoaquim de AlmeidaTito ValverdeAna is a former ETA member who lives in a village called Bermillo de Sayago, near the border with Portugal. She works as a veterinary with her friend and fellow Dario. With him, she shares her daily tasks, along with their daughter Amalia. Ana is a woman hidden in herself, but one day she meets José, an attractive man who makes it return to her past since José participated in the dirty war in Spain (GAL) against Basque refugees in France.
- DirectorKike MaílloStarsDaniel BrühlMarta EturaAlberto AmmannA shy genius is employed by his former university to design robot software.
- DirectorJosé Luis CuerdaStarsAlfredo LandaAntonio ResinesManuel AlexandreIn the summer of 1492, after spending three years prisoner in Tunisia, Bartolome returns to his land Extremadura in Spain, with the hope of eating their favorite food: pork. Along the way he meets a deserter who is accompanied by a sow.
- DirectorAntonio José BetancorStarsMiguel MolinaCristina MarsillachWalter VidarteIn 1939, José Garcés is in French prison camp after the defeat of Spain's Republicans. To entertain and inspire his fellow prisoners, he tells the story of becoming a man in 1919, the year he realized that learning to live is the same as learning to die. His stiff and demanding father loses a fortune in German war bonds, takes a job in Caspe, and leaves José on his own in Zaragoza to finish high school while apprenticing in a pharmacy. José courts his beloved Valentina via letters, becomes intimate with Isabel, a maid he meets in a cinema who shares his ideas of free love, and comes under the influence of El Checa, an anarchist and gentle teacher who leads a doomed revolt.
- DirectorTerry GilliamStarsJohn NevilleEric IdleSarah PolleyAn account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences across late 18th-century Europe with his band of misfits.
- DirectorJuan Manuel CoteloA documentary following the life of a wise, loving and energetic priest named Pablo Dominguez, the mountains he climbed and the lives he touched.
- DirectorAntonio José BetancorStarsAnthony QuinnJorge SanzPaloma GómezIn 1939, in a French prison camp, José Garcés of the defeated Spanish Republican army raises the spirits of his fellow prisoners by telling the story of the year he was 8 years old, 1911, in a small town in northeastern Spain. He was a rascal, baffling his father, always in trouble, and in love with Valentina, a neighbor girl. On his roof top at night he sends semaphore messages to her. He writes poems. He gets them into trouble, killing her father's breeding pigeons. When the two families camp at a decaying castle, his tutor, a sympathetic priest, tells him about the most valiant men, the saints, the heroes, and the poets. Already a poet, he learns a lesson about being a hero.
- DirectorJosé Luis López-LinaresJavier RioyoStarsJosé SanchoCarlos FuentesClaudio IsaacDocumentary about spanish director Luis Buñuel.
- CreatorJavier OlivaresPablo OlivaresStarsCayetana Guillén CuervoJuan GeaFrancesca PiñónA warrior from the 16th Century, the first female university student from the 19th Century, and a paramedic from the 21st Century join a secret agency to prevent people from changing Spanish history using time-traveling doors.
- DirectorXavier Martínez-SolerStarsJose Luis AguirreEvaOriol GenísA lonely security guard and a camera find themselves in an abandoned warehouse. Inevitably, this situation will tend to become a film.
- DirectorCarlos SauraStarsJuan DiegoFernando GuillénManuel de BlasA fascinating study of the poet Saint John of the Cross, and his spell in solitary confinement. Set in the convent of Toledo, this film explores the temptations that surrounded him, the dreams that afflicted him, his sanctity and his sanity.
- DirectorJosé Luis ArchelerguesAlberto LuengoStarsJosé Luis ArchelerguesEugenio ArnaoSusanna Bolton-PueyMISTERIOS DEL PASADO straddling drama, fantasy and suspense, tells the story of a girl who tragically loses her brother.
- StarsNahia LaizRikar GilAndrea VicuniaAt the height of the Spanish financial crisis, seven young people leave their lifestyles and squat an abandoned house at the Pyrenees in order to create a small horizontal society. This decision is not easy as they will have to face many challenges: the subsistence needs, the difficult relations with the neighbor village and, above all, their own paradoxes. And, all of these, while their personal relationships get stronger.
- DirectorMiguel BarretoSofía GuillénAlberto LuengoStarsChristian CabañeroIbone BecanaBorja InglésEdu is a university student whose life is disrupted when a succession of strange nightmares begin to chase to materialize in real life. With his friends will make a ouija to see find out what gives chase, but Edu will be trapped in the other plane and his friends, pursued now by the same beings should seek the kidnapped Edu's soul.
- DirectorPedro LazagaStarsPaco Martínez SoriaDoris CollEduardo FajardoAgustín Valverde is an old widower peasant who has always lived in the village of Calacervia, near Zaragoza. One day, he decides on a whim to go settle down in Madrid. When he arrives in the capital he is caught in the vortex of the Gran Vía's busy traffic. With great difficulty he manages to reach the apartment of Agustin hijo, his son, who has become a renowned doctor. His 40-year-old son lives a luxurious life there with his wife Luciana and their daughter Sara. But things are far from ideal: the three are annoyed by his uninvited presence, and he is troubled by the lack of moral values that seems to govern his relatives: frivolity, duplicity, and conceit reign supreme among them.
- DirectorAntonio Isasi-IsasmendiStarsFrancisco RabalMaribel VerdúGermán CobosSpain, 1950s. The corpse of an unknown person appears in the town square of Bocentellas, within the mythical territory of Región. The inhabitants will ask for help to Captain Medina, young officer in command of a nearby military fort, until the arrival of the judge.
- DirectorIsmael RubioStarsAlejandro AisaPedro AguavivaFrancisco Javier Millán AgudoAn Aragonese as Segundo de Chomón established the fundamental principles of Animation thanks to the invention of the crank passage. Aragon gave to the history of the cinema one of the most universal names, Luis Buñuel. Great directors, actors and technicians, as well as collectives, have given moments important to the history of cinema. For more than 100 years, Aragón has been and is a Land of Cinema, have been filmed infinity of films, diverse elements of exhibition have been created, for that reason and for many others motives, we want to show in a general way, the important combination of Aragon and cinema. Come and enjoy the CINEMA ARAGONES.
- StarsJuanjo PuigcorbéJosé Luis PellicenaPepe SorianoLife of the sixteenth-century Spaniard, burnt at the stake for heresy in Calvin's Geneva.
- DirectorFlorián ReyStarsImperio ArgentinaMiguel LigeroJuan de OrduñaPilar, a young Aragonese girl, is loved by two men. The rejected one makes believe she's been dishonest in a way hard to clear out.
- DirectorAntonio Giménez RicoStarsFernando LujánLola HerreraMaría IsbertAn elderly man returns to his native town with the hope of finding his childhood love.
- DirectorJorge NebraStarsJuan AguirreEva AmaralCachiTierra de Cierzo chronicles a part of the history of the music in Aragón and Spain from the last 70s until today. It's narrated by the true main figures of this history: Amaral, Héroes del Silencio, Violadores del Verso... It guides the audience through the influence of the past in all the things which are happening nowadays in national and international music. It talks about the sense of music for the musicians, the coalescence between creators and the generational overlap
- DirectorVicky CalaviaStarsMark AlbelaJosé Luis AlcaineFrancesc BetriuAragon Rodado is a look at the Aragonese countryside, star of the movie screen, accompanied by various trades of cinema.
- DirectorJuanjo Giménez PeñaStarsPepe PerezaVicente GilGhamedi M'BayeA prisoner on a furlough to attend his mother's funeral finds out he has a little brother, a nine year old kid who follows him on a aimless journey through desolate secondary roads.
- DirectorLuis García BerlangaStarsRichard BasehartJosé IsbertPaolo StoppaIn the village of Fuentecilla is a medicinal spa which was very popular in the past but has now been forgotten by the public. To bring back the tourists, the "prominent men" of the village organize a fake miracle: the apparition of San Dimas, the local patron saint, which will take place every Thursday night. At first it works, but trouble begins when a stranger appears, claiming that he knows what's going on and making peculiar demands in exchange for his silence.
- DirectorSamuel AlarcónStarsFéodor AtkineGoya's body remained forgotten in a pantheon in Bordeaux. Decades later, everyone present at the exhumation was greatly surprised: Goya's skull was missing.
- DirectorJosé Luis López-LinaresJavier RioyoStarsLuis CigesGiuseppe CorddedaGiuseppe De MinicoDocumentary on different foreign youths that fought in the Spanish Civil War, and of Spanish men that fought in the Eastern Front during WWII under the so called Blue Division.
- DirectorTerry GeorgeStarsOscar IsaacCharlotte Le BonChristian BaleSet during the last days of the Ottoman Empire, The Promise follows a love triangle between Michael, a brilliant medical student, the beautiful and sophisticated Ana, and Chris - a renowned American journalist based in Paris.
- DirectorJosé OchoaStarsLilián de CelisManuel MonroyJosé Calvo
- DirectorJosé Luis MadridStarsLuigi GiulianiMarta PadovanGermana MonteverdiA young cowboy, framed and imprisoned for the murder of the owner of a gold mine, returns to his country where the shady individuals responsible for his prison sentence are waiting for him.
- DirectorÁlex PinaStarsÁlex GarcíaEduardo BlancoVerónica EcheguiSlastan, from Karadjistan, is willing to immolate himself on a plane from Moscow to Madrid, but a storm forces a change in his plans.
- DirectorGaizka UrrestiJavier EspadaStarsJuan Luis BuñuelJavier EspadaLuis BuñuelThe life of one of the most important filmmakers and thinkers of the 20th century.
- DirectorDomingo ViladomatStarsAlfredo KrausLuz MárquezAdriano DomínguezThe film is a biography of the tenor Julian Gayarre who was born in 1843 in a small village in Navarra, Spain, and who soon demonstrated his great ability to sing.
- DirectorJacques AudiardStarsJohn C. ReillyJoaquin PhoenixJake GyllenhaalEli and Charlie Sisters, an infamous duo of gunslinging assassins, chase a gold prospector and his unexpected ally in 1850s Oregon.
- DirectorAndrés Pérez CuberoStarsFernando Fernández de Córdoba
- DirectorIratxe FresnedaCold Lands makes a personal journey through the images and cinema, guided by filmmakers and artist like, Theo Angelopoulos, Bego Vicario, Wim Wenders or Rut Hillarp among others. In this non-fictional road-movie their vision of what cinema is, of what is hidden behind the images, intersects with the world of beekeeping, architecture and the human landscape. Cinema within cinema and film locations that acquire new meanings when revisited by the contemporary gaze. From the landscapes of the interior, burnt by the sun, passing through the blue light of the northern lands, the film reflects on cinematographic archives, their validity and their importance as a cultural treasure. At the same time, it gives filmic archaeology a new meaning by making it interact with images of the present. Cold Lands is a journey through the meanings acquired by what is offstage in the landscapes appropriated by cinema, through the questioning of nature by the filmmaker's romantic gaze. Cinema and real life are confused with each other, in the knowledge that living is in itself a work of art.
- DirectorPedro LazagaStarsSara MontielCraig HillManuel ZarzoAna, a girl who is about to get married, discovers in her boyfriend's house a photograph in which her mother, dead at birth, and her future father-in-law appear in a very affectionate way.
- DirectorIván CastellTroubadours is the story of four musical artists finding success, but nobody really knowing about it. Diego, Alvaro, Lorenzo and Julio all share the same town, an other-worldly and enigmatic city that protects them for days on end. Troubadours is a reflection on art and fame, unafraid of reaching into its insanity. It finds the adequate rhythm to portray the drives of different persons who have left everything behind them, and now keep forging ahead irrevocably. The magic to be found a gaze, the concealed beauty of an ordinary town or the sheer greatness of the insignificant are the overarching notions and ideas of this film.
- DirectorMario CamusStarsAlberto ClosasGisia ParadísTomás BlancoA salesman discovers that his wife has died under strange circumstances. Examining these circumstances it becomes obvious to him that they were mainly caused by himself.
- DirectorGonzalo HerraldeStarsJosé Luis CervetoFernando ChamorroAntonio GarcíaDocumentary about the murderer José Luis Cerveto
- DirectorAntonio PeláezStarsFrank GrimesKamlesh GuptaLaura GoodwinDeserted by their father and with their mother dead, nine-year-old Pablo and his little sister Maria refuse to be separated from each other by their caretaker aunt. With a cross as their guide, they embark on a perilous, but ultimately rewarding adventure in search of a mystical gem that holds the key to happiness. They escape the fearsome metal hook of a pirate and are helped by a delightfully drunken Captain in their quest for the magic stone.
- DirectorJaime Jesús BalcázarStarsRobert WoodsDana GhiaAngelo InfantiBandits ambush Capt. Roy Dexter of the U.S. Cavalry while he and his men escort a fortune in Confederate gold coins. Only Dexter survives the attack. He's subsequently sentenced to life in prison on the false belief he masterminded the ambush. Escaping from prison, Dexter sets about tracking down and exposing the true culprits.
- DirectorRamón TorradoStarsEdmund PurdomFrank LatimoreFernando SanchoA band of outlaws terrorizes Las Cruces. A foreigner saves a ranch owner from being kidnapped by them, who in turns makes him the manager. But things aren't as they seem.
- DirectorPere AlberóOliete, like many other villages in Teruel (Spain), saw how their houses were abandoned progressively during the seventies. Some of those immigrants, already retired, returned, but Oliete and the ways of living which whom they grew up are no longer operating and there are hardly perceived as a mirage. Generations who were born and lived under traditional agricultural civilization reached the twilight of their lives, and with them also is going to be extinguished a different point of view from ours.
- DirectorJaime CaminoStarsSonia BrunoJuan Luis GaliardoAlberto BercoWith the intention of making a career in the world of spectacle, Paco and Lisa flee to Barcelona in a stolen car. After seeking unsuccessful work, the two young people will immerse themselves in delinquency.
- DirectorFrancesc BellmuntStarsÁlvaro de LunaJoan BorràsPep MunnéSome recruits are transferred to a military camp to fulfill their military service. One of them misses the train and takes his fiance and a taxi driver with him to hunt for the convoy.
- DirectorJuan BoschStarsAnthony SteffenDaniel MartínTania AlvaradoA bunch of outlaws awaits the release from prison of an old goldminer, believed to have hidden 28 sacks of gold 20 years before... They all want the old man to speak, but only one of them will fulfill his dream.
- DirectorJuan BoschStarsRichard HarrisonFernando SanchoRaf BaldassarreSteve McGowan returns from the Civil War, finds his father has been killed by a greedy landowner. MdGowan vows revenge. In the process, he falls in love with the landowner's fiancée.
- DirectorMiguel Ángel ToledoStarsAriel CastroRaquel EscribanoJavier MontóThe chess player Raúl invites his estranged wife Ana and his son Nico to travel with him during Christmas to an isolated cabin in a snowy mountain expecting to reconcile with her. On the arrival, Raúl asks the landlord someone to help to chop wood for the family and the helpful carpenter Samuel comes to the house and cut the wood. When Raúl sees his wife giving attention of Samuel, he becomes jealous and his paranoid mind makes him believe that Ana is having a love affair with Samuel. On the Christmas Eve, Raúl invites Samuel to spend the night with his family. Soon Raúl discovers the truth about the Ana and Samuel and what happened during the Christmas dinner.
- DirectorMarino DarésStarsÀlvar LópezSergio VillanuevaAitana BuenoArizona, 1875. Travis Lebeck lays unconscious in the desert. A family rescues him and then he decides to continue his way. Everything changes when an unexpected outlaw gang arrives forcing Travis to vary his plans.
- DirectorAntonio ArteroStarsFernando Fernán GómezMyriam MézièresÓscar LadoireAn English publisher specialized in Spanish culture and her husband arrive in Madrid on the trail of some manuscripts by the English poet Benton, who died in Huesca during the Spanish Civil War. These documents are supposed to be in the possession of Mainar, an old anarchist fighter. The contact and the subsequent relationship with him will mean the crisis of the couple and, finally, it will provoke in Mainar the outbreak of his personal drama.
- DirectorNacho G. VelillaStarsJavier CámaraCarmen MachiJuan DiegoEliseo is ugly, lame and single. He hasn't met the woman of his life and has never known love. Nati is ugly, missing a breast and separated. She found the man of her life but, even so, has never experienced true love. Eliseo thinks that the worst of his life is still to come. Nati thinks that the best of her life is still to come. The death of Eliseo's mother reunites them twenty years on in a last chance to find happiness and love. But what happens when the woman of your life is married to your brother?
- StarsSusana G. EstebanJordi AguilarAitor LunaIn 14th-century Barcelona, a serf's determined climb to wealth and freedom incurs the disdain of the noble class and the suspicion of the Inquisition.
- DirectorAlfonso BalcázarStarsCarl MöhnerLuis DávilaFernando SanchoWhile being pursued by a bounty hunter, Doc, a gambler, accidentally sees bandits killing a sheriff. Doc pretends to be the sheriff so the bounty hunter will stop his chase. The bandits however still believe the sheriff is alive.
- DirectorFlorestano VanciniStarsGiuliano GemmaFrancisco RabalGabriella GiorgelliAfter three years of hard labor, Ted Barnett escapes from prison to seek revenge on the three men who framed him.
- DirectorJoaquín Luis Romero MarchentStarsRobert HundarEmma CohenAlberto DalbésBandits attack a wagonload of convicts, and only a sergeant, his daughter, and seven sadistic prisoners survive. The sergeant must get his prisoners to their destination while a web of lies, greed, and betrayal unfolds.
- DirectorArturo Ruiz-CastilloStarsAlfredo MayoMari Paz MolineroAlicia RomayA Spanish engineer working in the Guinea jungle marries a woman whom he has been corresponding, only to find that the photograph he was sent was of his wife's best friend. He becomes obsessed with that other woman.
- DirectorTerry GilliamStarsJosé Luis FerrerIsmael FritschiJuan López-TagleToby, a disillusioned film director, is pulled into a world of time-jumping fantasy when a Spanish cobbler believes himself to be Sancho Panza. He gradually becomes unable to tell dreams from reality.
- DirectorRobert LynnJeremy SummersStarsCeleste YarnallRobert Walker Jr.Herbert LomAdventurer and treasure hunter Mike Yates is hoping to find a cache of Incan treasure lost in the Amazon jungle. While looking for his missing partner, he stumbles across a beautiful jungle girl named Eve. Later, he comes across Eve's grandfather, who is being swindled by a man and a young woman who is pretending to be his granddaughter Eve. Will Yates be able to expose the swindle, beat the swindlers to the lost treasure (with help from the real Eve), and reunite Eve with her grandfather before the final credits roll?
- DirectorJorge GrauStarsOvidi MontllorVicente ParraMaría Jesús SirventThe seemingly peaceful life of a little village located in the Spanish Levant hides the most turbid and ardent passions. Calixto, a repairman of television antennas, is required by the fiery midwives to quench their sexual instincts.
- DirectorRaymond RouleauStarsLudmilla TchérinaMilko SparemblekMilenko BanovitchIn a troupe of poor traveling comedians who perform in the public square, Isa dances the role of Isabelle in the legend of "Lovers of Teruel".
- DirectorCarlos SauraStarsFrancisco RabalJose CoronadoDafne FernándezFrancisco Goya (1746-1828), deaf and ill, lives the last years of his life in voluntary exile in Bordeaux, a Liberal protesting the oppressive rule of Ferdinand VII. He's living with his much younger wife Leocadia and their daughter Rosario. He continues to paint at night, and in flashbacks stirred by conversations with his daughter, by awful headaches, and by the befuddlement of age, he relives key times in his life, particularly his relationship with the Duchess of Alba, his discovery of how he wanted to paint (insight provided by Velázquez's work), and his lifelong celebration of the imagination. Throughout, his reveries become tableaux of his paintings.