Unwieldy in its delivery but joyous nonetheless, Eisenstein in Guanajuato is infectiously inventive and outrageous.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 4, 2019

Messy but quite amusing portrait of the Internationally celebrated Russian silent filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein.

| Original Score: B | Mar 27, 2018

Full Review | Jan 30, 2018

Beautiful and bold, rebellious and riotous, its sexual frankness puts E.L. James in the shade.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 30, 2016

Greenaway's film suffers from an ability to reign in its own excess.

| Nov 30, 2016

The main character preferences, in the creative process of the portrait that builds Greenaway, is anything but conventional. [Full review in Spanish]

| May 6, 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.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 22, 2016

It's never quite as funny or stylistically insightful as it thinks.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 17, 2016

Formally dazzling, emotionally empty.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 15, 2016

As always with Greenaway, the dialogue tends towards the florid and the intellectual. Nevertheless, he remains a master image-maker and an irrepressible subversive.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 14, 2016

Peter Greenaway's latest, Eisenstein in Guanajuato, may not be up everyone's street, and even fans may find the self-indulgent longueurs towards the end of the film too much. Still, the premise is interesting.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 14, 2016

Greenaway's devotion and cinephilia shine through. A fascinatingly vehement and intense movie.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 14, 2016

As the bushy haired Russian filmmaker, Elmer Bck looks and behaves like Harpo Marx. It's an intriguing performance which captures its subject's humour, prurience and his visionary qualities.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 14, 2016

Needless to say Eisenstein in Guanajuato, like Marmite, will elicit drastically divergent reactions.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 13, 2016

It's art with a capital A, and also a lot of fun.

| Apr 11, 2016

A messy, hectic, fitfully amusing film-nerd farce.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 11, 2016

It's clearly artificial, but it generates an emotional response. Sergei Eisenstein himself would have approved.

| Mar 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.

| Mar 23, 2016

Greenaway borrows [the idea of montage] like a kid who discovered 64 Crayolas next to a pot of coffee.

| Mar 6, 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.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 3, 2016