romantica12
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The Perfect Wave
LOVE, SIMON
Oh yea - and I think all of you must watch this outstanding movie. Very recommended!
After a failed attempt to make a movie in Hollywood, Soviet film pioneer and Stalinists propagandists Sergei Eisenstein (Elmer Bäck) travels from California to Guadajuato to make a film under the auspices of Upton Sinclair. While in Mexico, he has a sexual awakening and a love affair with his Mexican guide Palomino (Luis Alberti)...
What I loved about the movie ? The acting is pretty good. Elmer Bäck delivers a good performance in the film, although it's blatantly obvious from his accent that he's in fact Finnish, not Russian. The editing is fentastic. It plays around with the format, having real life photos of the characters and the locations next to characters as they are mentioned. (By the way, Eisenstein says Chaplin was at Universal. That's not true! In 1919, Chaplin co-founded the distribution company United Artists, which gave him complete control over his films.)
On the other side, the actual storyline is very forgettable. Greenaway chose to have the movie focus on Eisenstein's experiences in Mexico. Hmm!? We see very little of that. This movie indeed is not about Eisenstein making a film. I don't think it's fair to say that Einsenstein's blossoming homosexuality is the only topic that Greenaway is interested in, but it's the only topic that really seems to take any form. To be honest, Peter Greenaway isn't a storyteller so much as a painter.
Eisenstein in Guanajuato is far from a subtle picture, and hardly what you’d call to everyone’s taste, but it certainly doesn’t lack for enthusiasm, vision or style.
After a failed attempt to make a movie in Hollywood, Soviet film pioneer and Stalinists propagandists Sergei Eisenstein (Elmer Bäck) travels from California to Guadajuato to make a film under the auspices of Upton Sinclair. While in Mexico, he has a sexual awakening and a love affair with his Mexican guide Palomino (Luis Alberti)...
What I loved about the movie ? The acting is pretty good. Elmer Bäck delivers a good performance in the film, although it's blatantly obvious from his accent that he's in fact Finnish, not Russian. The editing is fentastic. It plays around with the format, having real life photos of the characters and the locations next to characters as they are mentioned. (By the way, Eisenstein says Chaplin was at Universal. That's not true! In 1919, Chaplin co-founded the distribution company United Artists, which gave him complete control over his films.)
On the other side, the actual storyline is very forgettable. Greenaway chose to have the movie focus on Eisenstein's experiences in Mexico. Hmm!? We see very little of that. This movie indeed is not about Eisenstein making a film. I don't think it's fair to say that Einsenstein's blossoming homosexuality is the only topic that Greenaway is interested in, but it's the only topic that really seems to take any form. To be honest, Peter Greenaway isn't a storyteller so much as a painter.
Eisenstein in Guanajuato is far from a subtle picture, and hardly what you’d call to everyone’s taste, but it certainly doesn’t lack for enthusiasm, vision or style.