• HUELVA IBEROAMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL

    1ST PRIZE, Talento Andaluz
  • Goya Awards

    8 Nominations including Best Film, Best First Time Director
  • GUADALAJARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

  • MALAGA FILM FESTIVAL

  • SPANISH FILM FESTIVAL TOULOUSE

  • Seattle Latino Film Festival

  • Beirut Art Film Festival

  • SEVILLA EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVAL

  • Master of Art Film Festival

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Spanish with English subtitles

The Sevillian Baroque master painter Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, underwent a calculated spoliation that scattered most of his work around the world’s top museums. Murillo’s Last Journey follows the enthralling journey of one of his most celebrated pieces, “The young beggar,” from Paris to Seville in the occasion of the 400th anniversary of his birth.

Enrique Valdivieso, an Art History guru with expertise in 17th century paintings; Guillaume Kientz, curator of the Louvre Museum; and Gabriele Finaldi, director of the National Gallery of London, will counterweigh his figure with that of his comrade Velázquez, reclaim and explain his legacy, and talk about his links with the history of the city (and with present-day Seville), while showing, in passing, the inner workings of the museum and its professions.

Press

“[The] documentary manifests the absolute modernity of Murillo's paintings.” – Andrés González-Barba, ABC de Sevilla Cultura-Arte

“A journey that portrays the other face of Murillo.”Diario de Sevilla

“The documentary aims at covering the inexplicable lack of audiovisual [references] around this exceptional painter. ”Audiovisual451

About the Director

José Manuel Gómez Vidal studied Art History at the Universidad de Sevilla, has an MA in Cultural Administration from the Universidad de Barcelona and an MA in International Cooperation. Since 2011, he has been working as a audiovisual curator for Programa para la Internalización de la Cultura Española (PICE).  Murillo’s Last Journey is his first film.

Notes on Film

“With this project, we want for non-specialists to understand Murillo’s figure in a different way. That of a very modern painter for his time, master of a prodigious technic and able to  communicated, as very few knew how, feelings and hopes, and who revolutionized painting elevating it to levels never reached till then.” –  José Manuel Gómez Vidal,