Eisenstein in Guanajuato

2015

Action / Biography / Comedy / Drama / Romance

3
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 62% · 53 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 53% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 3197 3.2K

mexico movie business soviet union biography hollywood director

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Plot summary

In 1931, following the success of the film Battleship Potemkin, Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein travels to the city of Guanajuato, Mexico, to shoot a new film. Freshly rejected by Hollywood, Eisenstein soon falls under Mexico’s spell. Chaperoned by his guide Palomino Cañedo, the director opens up to his suppressed fears as he embraces a new world of sensual pleasures and possibilities that will shape the future of his art.

Director

Peter Greenaway Photo
Peter Greenaway

Top cast

Lisa Owen Photo
Lisa Owen as Mary Craig Sinclair
Buster Keaton Photo
Buster Keaton as Self
Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle Photo
Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle as Self
Stelio Savante Photo
Stelio Savante as Hunter S. Kimbrough
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969.37 MB
1280*536
English 2.0
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24 fps
1 hr 45 min
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1.95 GB
1920*804
English 5.1
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24 fps
1 hr 45 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Jeremy_Urquhart 6 / 10

Peter Greenaway being a bit of a silly billy

I think I've discovered the opposite of self-care: watching a deep-cut Peter Greenaway film late at night because you can't sleep.Eisenstein in Guanajuato is that film. It was odd, sometimes frustrating, but definitely interesting. I wouldn't know who to recommend it to, if anyone. If I met an alternate version of myself from another universe, I'm not sure I'd recommend it to him even. But I don't entirely regret watching it. It lost me times, won me back, lost me again, then felt interesting again, and so on and so on until the movie just sort of ended.At least age hasn't number Greenaway's capacity to provoke and have fun, because Eisenstein in Guanajuato is one of his more light-hearted efforts, imagining a short period of time in the life of famed filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein.The lead actor, Elmer Bäck, kind of matches Greenaway's energy, but I think this film would've been something else entirely if Rob Schneider had been cast as Eisenstein. He kind of looks like him. The marketing could've just taken that South Park gag - "Rob Schneider is... Sergei Eisenstein!" Maybe in another universe. If I met my alternate self from that universe, I'd tell him to drop whatever he was doing and watch immediately.
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Reviewed by HollywoodFlicks 7 / 10

This movie has balls

A very touching story about a filmmakers trip to Mexico that touches on identity , sexuality, desires , truth, death and filmmaking.

The love story in this is really touching , seeing someone discover there own body and accept it in such a way was beautiful.

Feels like a companion pieces do 8 & 1/2 somehow.

A bold film that takes composition to new levels with passionate experimental shots and beautifully blocked and lit frames.

Greenaway has a way of saying so much in his films that make me ask myself so many questions or feel so many feelings.

If you enjoy art and being provoked in an artful way then this film is for you. Underrated and under appreciated in my humble opinion.

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