Eisenstein in Guanajuato
Greenaway has wrought an outrageously unconventional and deliriously profane biopic that could take decades to be duly appreciated.
Eisenstein in Guanajuato
In 1931, at the height of his artistic powers, Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein travels to Mexico to shoot a new film to be titled Que Viva Mexico. Freshly rejected by Hollywood and under increasing pressure to return to Stalinist Russia, Eisenstein arrives at the city of Guanajuato. Chaperoned by his guide Palomino Cañedo, he vulnerably experiences the ties between Eros and Thanatos, sex and death, happy to create their effects in cinema, troubled to suffer them in life.
Peter Greenaway’s film explores the mind of a creative genius facing the desires and fears of love, sex and death through ten passionate days that helped shape the rest of the career of one of the greatest masters of cinema.
Peter Greenaway’s film explores the mind of a creative genius facing the desires and fears of love, sex and death through ten passionate days that helped shape the rest of the career of one of the greatest masters of cinema.
Genre
Bio-pic,
Comedy,
Romance
Runtime
105
Language
English,
Spanish
Cast
Elmer Bäck,
Maya Zapata
Awards:
Nominee, Golden Bear, Berlin International Film Festival
FEATURED REVIEW
Boyd van Hoeij, Hollywood Reporter
Sex, death and Mexicans are the main protagonists of Eisenstein in Guanajuato, the latest unapologetic concoction of Netherlands-based British director Peter Greenaway. Again a flashily assembled meditation on some of the filmmaker’s favorite topics, this English-language feature was nominally ...
Played at
Royal 2.05.16 - 2.11.16
Playhouse 7 2.05.16 - 2.11.16
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