Eisenstein In Guanajuato
Yleisradio (YLE) (2013)
Comedy, Drama, Queer Themes/Interest, Romance
On Wish List
#545
7*
Seen It:  Yes
(9/4/2016 NetFlix)
IMDB   6.2
105 mins The Netherlands / Spanish
DVD  Region 1
Elmer Bäck
Director
Peter Greenaway
Producer Femke Wolting
Bruno Felix
Writer/Composer Peter Greenaway
Cinematography Reinier van Brummelen


The venerated filmmaker Eisenstein is comparable in talent, insight and wisdom, with the likes of Shakespeare or Beethoven; there are few - if any - directors who can be elevated to such heights. On the back of his revolutionary film Battleship Potemkin, he was celebrated around the world, and invited to the US. Ultimately rejected by Hollywood and maliciously maligned by conservative Americans, Eisenstein traveled to Mexico in 1931 to consider a film privately funded by American pro-Communist sympathizers, headed by the American writer Upton Sinclair. Eisenstein's sensual Mexican experience appears to have been pivotal in his life and film career - a significant hinge between the early successes of Strike, Battleship Potemkin, and October, which made him a world-renowned figure, and his hesitant later career with Alexander Nevsky, Ivan the Terrible and The Boyar's Plot.
Edition Details
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Notes
At the time I watched this film, I knew very little about Eisenstein except that he was a famous Russian film director -- Similarly, I knew little about Peter Greenway except that I had enjoyed others of his films -- As I enjoyed this very funny film, I also was uneasy -- Could a director who created the epic grandeur film “Potemkin” be this scatter-brained? Little appears to have been written about his personal life while living in Mexico -- A delightful film, fun to view, but likely of Greenway's imagination.