The Mill and the Cross: Lech Majewski's intriguing study of Bruegel's painting (the Way to Calvary) zooms in on vignettes within the canvas and then develops mini-episodes from there, sliding backwards and forwards in time and in and out of the picture as a whole, until all are unified under the by now greatly expanded 'sign' of the painting. With a dramatized Bruegel (Rutger Hauer) explaining his political, social, and aesthetic motives, the painting is transformed into a miraculous freeze-frame of a convulsion in history and society. You have to see it to know how artfully this effect is achieved.
Sunday, May 1, 2011
SFIFF54: 'The Mill and the Cross'
The Mill and the Cross: Lech Majewski's intriguing study of Bruegel's painting (the Way to Calvary) zooms in on vignettes within the canvas and then develops mini-episodes from there, sliding backwards and forwards in time and in and out of the picture as a whole, until all are unified under the by now greatly expanded 'sign' of the painting. With a dramatized Bruegel (Rutger Hauer) explaining his political, social, and aesthetic motives, the painting is transformed into a miraculous freeze-frame of a convulsion in history and society. You have to see it to know how artfully this effect is achieved.
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