The Mill and the Cross

Remember Bruegel's 'The Fall of Icarus', how "everything turns away quite leisurely from the disaster"?  This absolutely stunning movie is a must for anyone who appreciates art, drawing, painting - or the latest, most mind-blowing techniques in film-making.

The Mill and the Cross, trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZeCX_zevJ0

You can watch the movie here: http://mubi.com/films/the-mill-and-the-cross

"Pieter Bruegel’s 1564 epic masterpiece, The Procession to Calvary, portrays Jesus staggering to his crucifixion, lost in a panoramic landscape crowded with hundreds of villagers and red-caped horsemen. In depicting Jesus’ plight as one among many vignettes, while soldiers on horseback loom threateningly, Bruegel boldly transposes Christ’s passion and death to sixteenth-century Flanders—a time when the Belgian people were suffering terribly under brutal Spanish occupation.

Now one of Poland’s most adventurous and inspired filmmakers, Lech Majewski, translates The Procession to Calvary into cinema, mischievously inviting the viewer to live inside the aesthetic universe of the painting as we watch it being created. As various lives unfold within the film frame, Bruegel, too, appears as a character, capturing shards of their desperate stories on his canvas-in-the-making.

A vibrant meditation on art and religion as ongoing, layered processes of collective storytelling and reinterpretation, The Mill & the Cross is also a feast of stunning visual effects and a provocative allegory."

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