The Mill & the Cross
Behind every great painting lies an even greater story
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 35 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 31, 2012
- Originally Released: 2011
- Label: Kino Lorber
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Mateusz Machnik, Rutger Hauer, Wojciech Mierkulow, Charlotte Rampling, Michael York, Marian Makula, Sylwia Szczerba, Dorota Lis, Bartosz Capowicz & Joanna Litwin | |
Directed by | Lech Majewski | |
Screenwriting by | Lech Majewski & Michael Francis Gibson | |
Composition by | Lech Majewski & Jozef Skrzek | |
Director of Photography: | Lech Majewski & Adam Sikora |
Entertainment Reviews:
There is very little dialogue -- just enough to be instructive, forcing viewers to rely more on their eyes for information than most films do....The eye is particularly educated in terms of depth via the impressive digital layering of real, animated and three-dimensional miniature elements.
Sight and Sound
Rating: 3/4 --
The Mill & the Cross invites us to inhabit a work of art along with the mind of the man who made it and to be enthralled by the images shared in vivid tableaux by visionary Polish director Lech Majewski.
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Toronto Star
Rating: 4/10 --
While there are some interesting visuals, the lack of story and emotion doom this film.
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The Scorecard Review
We almost feel that we ourselves have accomplished something just by being around while Bruegel doodled.
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The New Republic
5 stars out of 5 -- Majewski's film is a stunning piece of art in its own right. At once a look at an artist's process, a close examination of an individual work of art, and a history lesson...
Box Office
Rating: 4/4 --
If you see no more than the opening shots, you will never forget them.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Both painting and film are brought to vivid, extraordinary life by the power of the artist's will: This is Intelligent Design we can believe in.
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Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
Product Description:
Lech Majewski directed this visually striking examination of the nexus between art and politics in the 16th century. In 1564, the Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel created one of his best-known and most controversial works, "The Procession to Calvary," in which Christ, carrying his cross, makes his way to his own crucifixion though a crowded landscape that features representations of hundreds of historic and contemporary figures. The painting was a biting commentary on political matters of the day as well as a satiric view of religion, and in THE MILL & THE CROSS, Majewski re-creates the making of Bruegel's masterpiece, as the artist (played by Rutger Hauer) stages the images and explains their meanings while we learn more about the individuals depicted and the people who posed for the work, many of whom have their own stories to tell. Using digital imaging technology, THE MILL & THE CROSS allows viewers to enter into Bruegel's painting as the static figures come to life. Also starring Charlotte Rampling and Michael York, THE MILL & THE CROSS received its American premiere at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.
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