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  • 2016
  • Unrated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 45 m
  • 2016
  • Unrated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 45 m

Summary In 1931, at the height of his artistic powers, Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein travels to Mexico to shoot a new film to be titled Que Viva Mexico. Freshly rejected by Hollywood and under increasing pressure to return to Stalinist Russia, Eisenstein arrives at the city of Guanajuato. Chaperoned by his guide Palomino Cañedo, he vulnerab...

Directed By: Peter Greenaway

Written By: Peter Greenaway

  • 2016
  • Unrated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 45 m
  • 2016
  • Unrated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 45 m

Eisenstein in Guanajuato

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 17 Critic Reviews
60
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 14 User Ratings
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Summary In 1931, at the height of his artistic powers, Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein travels to Mexico to shoot a new film to be titled Que Viva Mexico. Freshly rejected by Hollywood and under increasing pressure to return to Stalinist Russia, Eisenstein arrives at the city of Guanajuato. Chaperoned by his guide Palomino Cañedo, he vulnerab...

Directed By: Peter Greenaway

Written By: Peter Greenaway

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 17 Critic Reviews
60
59% Positive
10 Reviews
35% Mixed
6 Reviews
6% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 17 Critic Reviews
60
59% Positive
10 Reviews
35% Mixed
6 Reviews
6% Negative
1 Review

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88
Mar 24, 2016
It’s a wild ride from beginning to end, thanks to a fearless performance from Finnish actor Elmer Back, who is a perfect match for Greenaway’s mischief.
By David Lewis FULL REVIEW
80
Jan 27, 2016
Greenaway has wrought an outrageously unconventional and deliriously profane biopic that could take decades to be duly appreciated.
By Peter Debruge FULL REVIEW
75
Feb 1, 2016
What comes through clearly by the end of the film is the act of one artist's eccentric generosity breathing new awareness into the life of another.
By Carson Lund FULL REVIEW
63
Feb 18, 2016
A lot of this is naughty, overproduced egghead fun, and the scenes between Eisenstein and Canedo simmer with sexual tension. But too much is never enough for Greenaway, and while the leading men give bravura performances, the supporting cast is weak — Lisa Owen as Mrs. Upton Sinclair is actively dreadful — and the film’s hyperactivity ultimately wears you down.
By Ty Burr FULL REVIEW
50
Feb 5, 2016
Features some of the worst post-synching seen in any recent movie. If Eisenstein, the consummate craftsman, would have regretted Greenaway’s penchant for pointless and overdone circular tracking shots, he surely would have groaned at how the actors’ lips here and the words they speak are so often on different timetables.
By Godfrey Cheshire FULL REVIEW
50
Feb 4, 2016
Photos, clips from Eisenstein’s own films and from newsreels, and the director’s erotic drawings are spliced in or sometimes projected over the background, but the overloaded visual plane only underlines the fact that Eisenstein In Guanajuato never moves anywhere; eventually, it becomes stultifying. It’s a movie jumping in place.
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky FULL REVIEW
37
Mar 3, 2016
Fans of Greenaway’s work — a mix of the brainy, the controversial and the grotesque — won’t necessarily be surprised by any of this. They may, however, be disappointed at how little of it actually works.
By Michael O'Sullivan FULL REVIEW

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5.4
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21% Mixed
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36% Negative
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21% Mixed
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36% Negative
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Production Company Submarine, Fu Works, Paloma Negra Films, Edith Film Oy, Potemkino, Mollywood, ZDF/Arte, Vrijzinnig Protestantse Radio Omroep (VPRO), Yleisradio (YLE), Eficine 226, Enterprise Flanders, Nederlands Filmfonds, Netherlands Film Production Incentive, Screen Flanders, Suomen Elokuvasäätiö, Tax Shelter du Gouvernement Fédéral Belge, Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds
Release Date Feb 5, 2016
Duration 1 h 45 m
Rating Unrated
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Website https://www.facebook.com/eisensteinguanajuato
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Awards

Berlin International Film Festival
• 3 Nominations
International Film Festival of India
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Chlotrudis Awards
• 2 Nominations

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