Eisenstein in Guanajuato

Directed by Peter Greenaway

Venerated Soviet filmmaker Eisenstein travels to Mexico in 1931 after being shunned by Hollywood. Once he arrives in Guanajuato plans begin to change as he encounters a different culture and becomes drawn into the Mexican Revolution.
Eisenstein in Guanajuato is an exuberant, highly stylised Peter Greenaway film imagining a transformative period in Sergei Eisenstein’s life in Mexico. The film is visually excessive and sexually explicit, but its energy and playfulness make the director’s awakening vivid and entertaining.

Eisenstein in Guanajuato

Directed by Peter Greenaway

Venerated Soviet filmmaker Eisenstein travels to Mexico in 1931 after being shunned by Hollywood. Once he arrives in Guanajuato plans begin to change as he encounters a different culture and becomes drawn into the Mexican Revolution.

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Eisenstein in Guanajuato is an exuberant, highly stylised Peter Greenaway film imagining a transformative period in Sergei Eisenstein’s life in Mexico. The film is visually excessive and sexually explicit, but its energy and playfulness make the director’s awakening vivid and entertaining.