Everyone's favorite arthouse grump Peter Greenaway is back with another new film, and a starry premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival. The first trailer has arrived for "Eisenstein In Guanajuato," his look at one of cinema's greatest artists, and the act of moviemaking itself.
Finnish actor Elmer Back (“The Spiral”) takes the lead role, supported by Luis Alberti, Stelio Savante, and Lisa Owen, in the film that follows the director's life-changing ten days in 1930s Mexico as he attempts to make "Que Viva Mexico." Here's the official synopsis:
Eisenstein in Guanajuato is a feature film about the world's greatest filmmaker, with Finnish actor Elmer Back Elmer Pekk (The Spiral) playing the title role of the Soviet film-director Sergej Eisenstein. Eisenstein's talent, insight and wisdom can surely be measured with that of Shakespeare and Beethoven, and his films Strike, Pantserkruiser Potjomkin and October...