title: The Goya Murders
text: # 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.
  
  ## 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.
  
  ## Cast
  
  * Maribel Verdú as Carmen Cobos
  * Aura Garrido as Eva González
  * Roberto Álamo as Comisario Julián Vargas
  * Ginés García-Millán as Eduardo Gil
  * Daniel Grao as Adrián Iglesias
  * Ruth Gabriel as Alicia Márquez
  * Aitor Fernandino as Mateo
  * Oscar Pastor as Santos
  * Laura Cepeda as Ana Mendieta
  * Antonio Velázquez
  * Laurent D'Elia
  * Tamar Novas
  
  ## 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. It was shot in Madrid, Pamplona and Brussels.
  
  ## Release
  
  The film screened out of competition at the 52nd Sitges Film Festival in October 2019. Distributed by A Contracorriente Films, 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.
  
  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".
  
  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.
  
  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".
  
  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.
  
  