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Eisenstein in Guanajuato
UNITED KINGDOM · 2015

Eisenstein in Guanajuato

Peter Greenaway
artistic rejection and reinvention homosexuality and repressed desire cultural displacement and adaptation Mexican sensuality and exoticism creative inspiration and artistic process
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Synopsis

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. Freshly rejected by Hollywood, Eisenstein soon falls under Mexico’s spell. Chaperoned by his guide Palomino Cañedo, the director opens up to his suppressed fears as he embraces a new world of sensual pleasures and possibilities that will

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