The Mill and the Cross

The Mill and the Cross is a film directed by Lech Majewski from the year 2011. Starring Rutger Hauer, Charlotte Rampling and Michael York play. The film is based on the book by Michael Francis Gibson The Mill and the Cross and revolves around the creation of the Bruegel painting Christ Carrying the Cross ( 1564). The film is a Polish- Swedish co-production. The filming was completed in August 2009. The film was presented 23 January 2011 at the Sundance Film Festival.

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Of the approximately 500 people in Bruegel's painting a dozen are envisaged in the film. The motif of the suffering of Christ is contrasted with the religious persecution in the Spanish Netherlands to the creation time of the image.

Reviews

"Instead of spreading a Kostümbiopic about genius and madness of an artist before conventional history backdrop, Majewski has taken a radical, captivating approach that gives birth to a perfect art film. From the outset, the camera sunk devoutly in the harsh natural idyll of Flanders anno 1564, by measures respectfully tableaux of peasant life style and foggy landscapes, conjuring a fabulous atmosphere and enjoy this in more detail tranquility. From the more than 500 forms of the mammoth image Majewski selects a dozen whose daily task it maps to farms, fields and markets in detail exactly equipped naturalism - non clarifies and yet lyrical. He evokes an almost action- free picture gallery in muted colors, lots of natural light and indirect dark tones. For a long time he can speak sights and sounds for yourself until art collector Nicolas Jonghelinck (Michael York) about the oppression of the Spaniards, painter Bruegel ( Rutger Hauer ) on genesis and approach of his image and the Virgin Mary ( Charlotte Rampling ) about Jesus' death monologically miss. "

2011 in film Screenplay Film score SBB (band) Michael York (actor) The Procession to Calvary (Bruegel)
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