Eisenstein in Guanajuato

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Eisenstein in Guanajuato
Netherlands, Mexico | 2015| English, Spanish
105 minutes | Colour
Director: Peter Greenaway
Synopsis: 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 in 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.
Greenaway portrays Eisenstein as an eccentric, self-absorbed artist who travels to a new place and culture and is forced by the experiences he has there toi question his assumptions about himself and
Stalinist Russia.