The Mill and the Cross
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Director Lech Majewski Budget 1.1 million EUR Language English and Spanish | 7/10 IMDb Genre Drama, History Duration Country Poland
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Writer Michael Francis Gibson , Lech Majewski Release date 23 January 2011 (2011-01-23) (Sundance)
18 March 2011 (2011-03-18) (Poland) Music director Lech Majewski, Jozef Skrzek Cast Rutger Hauer (Peter Bruegel), Charlotte Rampling (Mary), Michael York (Nicolaes Jonghelinck), Joanna Litwin (Marijken Bruegel)Similar movies Pitch Perfect 2 , The Last Witch Hunter , Captain America: The First Avenger , Jupiter Ascending , The Avengers , Mortdecai Tagline Behind every great painting lies an even greater story | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The mill and the cross 2011 i don t understand
The Mill and the Cross (Polish: Młyn i krzyż) is a 2011 drama film directed by Lech Majewski and starring Rutger Hauer, Charlotte Rampling and Michael York. It is inspired by Pieter Bruegel the Elder's 1564 painting The Procession to Calvary, and based on Michael Francis Gibson's book The Mill and the Cross. The film was a Polish-Swedish co-production. Filming on the project wrapped in August 2009. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 23, 2011.
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Plot
The film focuses on a dozen of the 500 characters depicted in Bruegel's painting. It consists of a series of vignettes depicting everyday peasant life, interspersed with monologues from some of the principal characters, including Bruegel explaining the structure and symbolism of his painting. The theme of Christ's suffering is set against religious persecution in Flanders in 1564.
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Reception
Joe Bendel: "... one of the standouts at this year’s Sundance". Variety's Dennis Harvey wrote: "While hardly an exercise in strict realism a la The Girl With the Pearl Earring, the pic details rustic Flanders life with loving care, from costuming to simple machinery. Pic's narrative content ... is hardly straightforward or propulsive. ... the film is never dull, and frequently entrancing." Harvey thought that if marketed cleverly, the film "could prove the Polish helmer's belated international breakthrough". Neil Young of The Hollywood Reporter complimented the technical achievements, but called the film "ambitious but frustratingly flat". He described the English dialogue as "mostly clunky" and thought the film "has too much of a stodgy Euro-pudding feel". On the other hand, in his review for the San Francisco International Film Festival, executive director Graham Leggat wrote: "...the narrative is not the point—the extraordinary imagery is. The painting literally comes to life in this spellbinding film, its wondrous scenes entering the viewer like a dream enters a sleeping body."
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The Mill and the Cross WikipediaThe Mill and the Cross IMDb The Mill and the Cross themoviedb.org