Review of The Mill and the Cross (2011) by Zacklemcheck — 15 Feb 2012
I don't think it's appropriate to expect a narrative from a snapshot - an allegorical snapshot at that - conveying the spiritual cosmology of peasants in the Renaissance. We might as well go to a movie based on "The Persistence of Memory" expecting to get a melodrama about a Spanish watchmaker on LSD.
How banal would that be? For me it's enough that the film immerses us in Brueghel's world, from the mud to the heavens, and successfully communicates something of its way of life and thought across an almost interplanetary gulf of psychological distance, through the imagination of the artist.
This review of The Mill and the Cross (2011) was written by Zacklemcheck on 15 Feb 2012.
The Mill and the Cross has generally received positive reviews.
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