Don’t bother to see the movie Natalie Portman is promoting here. “Goya’s Ghosts” was god-awful, and the pretty Ms. Portman in poor form as a balding, raving lunatic throughout the film. Although, you can’t entirely blame her. For the unconscionable crime of refusing to eat pork, her character, the daughter of a wealthy merchant and the artist Goya’s muse, is tortured, falsely imprisoned, raped and driven mad. But it’s all worth it in the end because there is the the lovely left-over benefit of hearing her promote the film in her fluffy but fluent Hebrew.
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