The Mill and the Cross (official trailer)

Now on DVD & Blu-ray at
THE MILL AND THE CROSS is a "film of great beauty and attention" (Roger Ebert) that stunningly recreates one of the great masterpieces of painting, Pieter Bruegel the Elder's The Way to Calvary.

Lech Majewski (The Gospel According to Harry) brings the viewer inside the painting with immersive period detail and jaw-dropping digital effects. The daily life of 16th-century Flanders is rendered with astounding vividness, from the routine of the windmill caretaker to the crusading Spanish militia, who abuse Protestants with brutally violent tactics. Rutger Hauer (Blade Runner) stars as Bruegel himself, touring inside his own canvas and discussing the origin of his work while his wealthy patron, Nicolaes Jonghelinck (Michael York, The Three Musketeers), bemoans the state of his disintegrating country. The film also features Charlotte Rampling (The Night Porter) as the Virgin Mary.

An "inspiring, alluring meditation about imagery and storytelling" (NY Times), THE MILL AND THE CROSS is a one-of-a-kind marvel of art historical investigation (adapted from a book by art critic Michael Francis Gibson) that truly brings a great painting to life.

[d.b.levitt]

This is if Pasolini were still directing today.

[pedrogarcialavin]

Hello!
Who knows what camera was used?

[eaba]

NO SE PUEDE SUBTITULAR, AUNQUE SEA EN INGLÉS???MUCHAS GRACIAS.

[rcharlton]

Here's the page in Kino Lorber's catalog that will help you find the film

[teukel]

Well... got to admit, it looks like a bummer. After the recommendation of a comment from the Youtube video of Bruegel, saying gotta see it, I was let to this trailer. I am not an undue skeptic, nor a lightweight. It is just these days one must watch for those always rounding down so they can do the subtle rounding up as it were. Always be aware of the self-consciously virtuous. Heretics in any time. Now is no exception. Otherwise you don't even get the point of the paintings. Of course you do...

[dorengarcia]

Breughal painted human kind the way it was and is... and its not a pretty story.