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THE MILL AND THE CROSS. by Lech Majewski. synopsis. Pieter Bruegel's 1564 epic masterpiece, The Procession to Calvary, portrays Jesus staggering to his …

The Mill & The Cross is a revelation that should not be missed". David D'Arcy, Screen International "Inside a masterpiece, and creating a new one in The Mill & The Cross – an extraordinary example of both art-historical interpretation and CGI as passport to unknown lands." Nick Pinkerton, The Village Voice

THE MILL AND THE CROSS is a "film of great beauty and attention" (Roger Ebert) that stunningly recreates one of the great masterpieces of painting, Pieter Bruegel the Elder's The Way to Calvary. Lech Majewski (The Gospel According to Harry) brings the viewer inside the painting with immersive period detail and jaw-dropping digital effects. The ...

Woodcutters fell trees in a nearsilent forest; a loving peasant couple awakens in their bed to kiss and embrace; a somber miller awakens his corpulent, sour-faced wife with a shove. The mill they inhabit, furthermore, is no ordinary mill, but one that extends vertiginously upwards through the rock-face of a cliff.

3.81. 32 ratings10 reviews. Michael Gibson's perceptive eye and limpid prose lead the viewer effortlessly through the story of Christ's passion as told in Peter Bruegel's Way to Calvary - an astonishing work, laced with …

The Mill and the Cross is a movie inside of a painting, specifically The Way to Calvary (1564) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Pieter Bruegel (Rutger Hauer) is the main character in the film which takes turns following him as he decides how his painting will take shape and who will be in it and also follows the local peasants who go about their daily …

The Mill and the Cross, by art critic Michael Francis Gibson, is an analysis of Bruegel's 1564 painting The Way to Calvary, and inspired the film, which Gibson cowrote with Polish artist and filmmaker Lech Majewski.

The Mill and the Cross. 2011 · 1 hr 35 min. TV-14. Drama · Documentary. Rutger Hauer stars as Pieter Bruegel, touring inside his own canvas and discussing his work's origin in this immersive art historical investigation. Starring: Charlotte Rampling Michael York Rutger Hauer. Directed by: Lech Majewski. Rutger Hauer stars as Pieter Bruegel ...

Violence & Gore. People are shown repeatedly whipping, beating, and kicking a man. A man is left to die and birds are shown pecking at his bloodied body. A woman is shown being buried alive. A large part of the film echoes the crucifixion story of Jesus, which includes showing a man being whipped and nailed to a cross to die.

The Mill and the Cross. THE MILL AND THE CROSS is a "film of great beauty and attention" (Roger Ebert) that stunningly recreates one of the great masterpieces of …

Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Giuseppe Sedia Kino Mania. The slow shots are reminiscent of Michael Snow's experimental video work and Dorota Roqueplo's …

Using sophisticated computer technology, the filmmaker creates a brilliantly complex and fascinating multi-layered dreamscape that melds art, history, and religion with the quotidian joys and struggles of ordinary people. History 2011 1 hr 35 min. 77%. NR. Starring Rutger Hauer, Charlotte Rampling, Michael York.

The Mill and the Cross opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Our rating: Only several dozen works of the great Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel are known to have survived since his ...

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Indeed much of "The Mill and the Cross" delights, with episodes of rambunctious humor among some rural ne'er-do-wells and a roving pack of joyfully …

An extraordinary imaginative leap, Lech Majewski's " The Mill and the Cross" combines old and new technologies allowing the viewer to live inside the painting — Flemish master Pieter ...

The Mill and the Cross: Directed by Lech Majewski. With Rutger Hauer, Michael York, Charlotte Rampling, Joanna Litwin. This movie focuses on a dozen of the …

The mill and the cross : Peter Bruegel's "Way to Calvary" by Gibson, Michael, 1929-Publication date 2000 Topics Bruegel, Pieter, approximately 1525-1569. Procession to Calvary, Bruegel, Pieter, approximately 1525-1569 -- Criticism and interpretation, Jesus Christ -- Art Publisher

The Mill & the Cross is a "film of great beauty and attention" (Roger Ebert) that stunningly recreates one the great masterpieces of painting, Pieter Bruegel the Elder's the Way to Calvary. Director Lech Majewski (The Gospel According to Harry) brings the viewer inside the painting with immersive period detail and jaw-dropping digital effects.

The Mill and the Cross is an imaging of what inspired Pieter Bruegel's masterful painting The Way to Calvary, an epic work featuring over 500 figures. At its most basic level the film is an ...

Drawing From Life: Rutger Hauer is the painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder in The Mill and the Cross, a stunner of an art film that …

The Mill and the Cross is a movie inside of a painting, specifically The Way to Calvary (1564) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Pieter Bruegel (Rutger Hauer) is the main character in the film which takes turns following him as he decides how his painting will take shape and who will be in it and also follows the local peasants who go about their daily business in …

The Mill and the Cross (2011) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.

Michael Francis Gibson's The Mill and the Cross leads the reader into a surprising painting by Peter Bruegel the Elder - The Way to Calvary - an ambiguous work which all at once illustrates the Passion of Christ and the execution of a Reformation preacher in a city rather like Antwerp where Bruegel lived in the early 1560s. The book …

The Mill and the Cross is a strikingly original film that interweaves art and history, taking viewers on a journey through Pieter Bruegel's 1564 painting, "The Way to Calvary." The film is directed by Lech Majewski and stars Rutger Hauer, Michael York, and Charlotte Rampling. Set in 16th-century Flanders during the Spanish Inquisition, the film ...

Now imagine a whole film made entirely out of those scenes. Well that movie is Lech Majewski's The Mill and the Cross, an austere and evocative artwork in motion, literally Pieter Brueghel's renaissance masterpiece The Procession to Calvary come to life. This is a feast for the eyes bursting with stunning digital wizardry and effective ...

THE MILL AND THE CROSS. Pieter Bruegel's 1564 epic masterpiece, The Procession to Calvary, portrays Jesus staggering to his crucifixion, lost in a panoramic landscape crowded with hundreds of villagers and red-caped horsemen. In depicting Jesus' plight as one among many vignettes, while soldiers on horseback loom threateningly, …

The Mill and the Cross rises above lecture-demonstration to chart the seemingly never-ending war between barbarity and humanity, making a stand through art. As some parts of the filmed painting move, other parts freeze, and the surface undulates with beautifully, lovingly crafted detail, one repeatedly is impressed by Majewski's daring to be so ...