Eisenstein in Guanajuato

never thought I'd see a movie where someone gets a flag up the ass but here we are

Baeck brings an impressive amount of joy to the role of Eisenstein, which appears at moments to approach an impersonation of Larry Howard. However, I found the film an annoying rehearsal of several themes done better in other Greenaways, and this competes with 8 1/2 Women as the worst Greenaway I have seen.

Eistenstein In Guanajuato offers the typical Greenaway experience: symmetrical compositions, lateral tracking shots, thematic obsessions (sex and death), theatrical performances and baroque influenced set design. His depiction of the groundbreaking German director is unusual to say the least; it's more focused on his transformative sexual experiences than his film making talent. It's well made, but it seems rather pointless and indulgent, and its collage-like visuals are hit and miss.

for that greenaway-and-chill night

Wes Anderson meets Woody Allen, kinda.

Dear Peter, you have left me with mixed feelings. At one hand I admire and am astonished by your cinematographic capabilities, how you can facilitate different techniques to enhance the cinematic experience, but on the other I do not really understand why you have to stick to the narrative so strictly. Also, you -or your characters- fluctuate between sheer joy, superficiality and 'spoiledness' and deathly seriousness so rapidly, it gets your story out of tune. I prefer Tulse Luper Suitsaces. Bye

Welche Bedeutung hat Eisenstein überhaupt noch für normale Kinogänger? Diese Frage hat sich Peter Greenaway bestimmt gestellt, als er die Reise des russischen Filmemachers nach Mexiko verfilmte. Greenaway interessieren aber weniger die intellektuellen und künstlerischen Aspekte von Eisensteins Produktion von Que Viva Mexico!... mehr auf cinegeek.de

34. İstanbul Film Festivali - Feriye Sineması: Greenaway'in alaycılığı ilk bu kadar aşikar. Bu hem iolumlu, hem de filmi biraz hafifletmesi açısından olumsuz bir durum. Ama Greenaway'in sinematografisi yine bildiğimiz gibi.

This feels a bit more fully-realized as well as accessible than Greenaway's last few films, maybe since the turn of the century, although it's still nowhere near his work with Vierny and Nyman. For a guy who considers himself the bleeding edge of cinema, it'a a little dispiriting that his style hasn't really evolved much since the Tulse Luper Suitcases. On the other hand, it's probably the warmest and most approachably "human" film he's ever made which is sort of nice.

Love him or hate him, Peter Greenaway is always unusual and interesting. I really had to watch this because I was hosted in Guanajuato only a year ago and loved the city, and of course I was interested to see what Greenaway had to say about Sergei Eisenstein. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it's another movie about sex, not particularly good nor bad; and the director's style, idiosyncratic as always, is ingenious at times, and at other times just manneristic. Bäck's Russian accent is terrible.

The movie's not that bad but the editing grates your eyeballs.

Everything I like about movies

Erotic Exploits of Eccentric Eisenstein! Screw his film making! This is all about Sergei Eisenstein having homosexual sex in Mexico Peter Greenaway-style! Might sound like a turn-off for us heterosexuals, but since male nudity is funny and Elmer Bäck is absolutely brilliant in this, Eisenstein in Guanajuato (2015) becomes one of the absurdly wonderful films of 2015!

Some very interesting decisions-- of narrative, editing, etc.-- but the substance of the thing never managed to bubble up to the top, and to me it's very clear that, frankly, Greenaway hasn't recovered from the loss of the great Sacha Vierny.

Part Baz Luhrmann and part Peter Greenaway. It's exactly as interesting and exhausting as it sounds.