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The Mill And The Cross, a marvellous non-commercial film, full of magic and magnetism.
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Beautiful film inspired by "Christ Carrying the Cross" (1564), a Pieter Brueghel's painting, and the book "The Mill and the Cross: Peter Brueghel's Way to Calvary" that Michael Francis Gibson wrote based on the same picture.
Through a fine and exquisite production design the director, screenwriter and cinematographer Lech Majewski invites us to know all the suffering, rebellion and religious repression that appear behind the characters in Brueghel's work.
Through the painter's hand and his sketch we attend the explanations of the different areas and symbols that make up the whole drawing. Then the characters come to life and their gestures, daily routines and glances inform us of how life was in a small sixteenth century Flanders town under the authoritarian rule of the Spanish Empire.
Different landscapes and perspectives place us in front of an evocative and aesthetic painting where each character conveys a rich inner world, where words are useless and unnecessary and where each frame suggests ineffable transcendence. A mosaic full of many suggestive sequences that is brought together by two great actors: Michael York and Rutger Hauer.
The movie achieves to combine the art of painting with the art of filming, silence and slow tempos with highly visual effects and History with local customs. It is a marvellous non-commercial film, full of magic and magnetism that leaves the viewer unable to get up from the chair.
