In 1931, following the success of the film Battleship Potemkin, Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein travels to the city of Guanajuato, Mexico, to shoot a new film. There he has a sensual experience that becomes a significant turning point in his life and career.
4 October 1895, Piqua, Kansas, USA
24 March 1887, Smith Center, Kansas, USA
18 October 1981, Finland
24 April 1970, Cape Town, South Africa
November 30, 2016
Greenaway's film suffers from an ability to reign in its own excess.
March 03, 2016
Greenaway's madcap style involves quick cuts, scenes changing from black and white to color, split-screen effects and eye-popping visuals that tend to overwhelm. The effect is initially giddy but it ultimately wears the viewer down.
March 03, 2016
Fans of Greenaway's work - a mix of the brainy, the controversial and the grotesque - won't necessarily be surprised by any of this. They may, however, be disappointed at how little of it actually works.
April 11, 2016
A messy, hectic, fitfully amusing film-nerd farce.
February 18, 2016
This interpretation may not be strictly factual, but it's a persuasive narrative and it brings out the strongest instincts in Greenaway, whose most popular movie remains "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover."
April 17, 2016
It's never quite as funny or stylistically insightful as it thinks.
April 15, 2016
Formally dazzling, emotionally empty.
April 22, 2016
Eisenstein in Guanajuato certainly bursts out with a picaresque energy and voluminous scale that is as impressive as anything Greenaway has made in a long time.
May 06, 2016
The main character preferences, in the creative process of the portrait that builds Greenaway, is anything but conventional. [Full review in Spanish]
March 23, 2016
To be sure, Greenaway's sensibilities may not be for everyone, but in the years to come, this is an artist whose work will be studied. It's a pleasure seeing him come out to play.
February 18, 2016
The film's hyperactivity ultimately wears you down. Is it possible to give a movie Ritalin? "Eisenstein in Guanajuato" makes you want to try.

