While it’s far from easy going, The Mill And The Cross is worth attempting for its stunning visuals alone. The film was inspired by Pieter Bruegel’s 1564 painting The Way To Calvary, a landscape that imagines Christ’s procession coming through what was, for the painter, contemporary Flanders, escorted through a crowd of peasants by occupying Spaniards, while a mill high on a mountain overlooks the proceedings. Polish director Lech Majewski (Gospel According To Harry) brings the scene and the world in which it takes place to life in a striking, splendid fashion, combining real countrysides, live actors ...
- 9/15/2011
- avclub.com
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