Vancouver Queer FF 15 – EISENSTEIN IN GUANAJUTO – Opening Gala Film

First Festival Screening – August 13, 2015 @ 7:00 PM at Vancouver Playhouse

“The greatest film practitioner we’ve ever seen” is how Peter Greenaway refers to Sergei Eisenstein, the 20th century creator of the masterpieces Battleship Potemkin and October. Here, Greenaway offers us his own sumptuous rendition of the director’s 1931 trip to Mexico to shoot Que viva México (which was never completed)— when Eisenstein fell in love, and into distraction, with his appointed guide, Palomino Cañedo. High camp treatment blends with masterfully-shot scenes of Eisenstein rolling in luxurious beds, vomiting in alleyways, and cavorting with Frida Kahlo. And likely the best sex scene ever committed to celluloid that blends seduction and dominance with a turning-the-tables soliloquy on self-determination and colonialism—and a gorgeous drop of olive oil.

Director – Peter Greenaway

Vancouver Queer Film Festival (VQFF)

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