The Mill and The Cross (Młyn i Krzyż), Poland-Sweden, 2010, 85 min.
Director: Lech Majewski
Screenwrites: Michael Francis Gibson, Lech Majewski
Direcrtors of photography: Lech majewski, Adam Sikora
Main Cast: Rutger Hauer, Michael York, Charlotte Rampling, Joanna Litwin, Dorota Lis, Emilia Czartoryska
Produced by: Angelus Silesius
Producer: Lech Majewski
Sunday, November 13, 7:00 pm
The Little Theatre
What would it be like to step inside a great work of art, have it come alive around you, and even observe the artist as he sketches the very reality you are experiencing? Lech Majewski brings to life Pieter Bruegel's masterpiece The Way to Calvary, the story of the crucifixion, set in Flanders under brutal Spanish occupation in the year 1564. From among the more than five hundred figures that fill Bruegel’s remarkable canvas, The Mill and The Cross focuses on a dozen characters whose life stories unfold and intertwine in a panoramic landscape populated by villagers and red-caped horsemen. Among them are Bruegel himself (played by Rutger Hauer), his friend and art collector Nicholas Jonghelinck (Michael York), and the Virgin Mary (Charlotte Rampling). One of today’s most adventurous and inspired artists and filmmakers, Lech Majewski, translates The Way to Calvary into cinema, inviting the viewer to live inside the aesthetic universe of the painting as we watch it being created. “The Mill and The Cross lands as one of 2011’s most visually inspired pieces, combining truly painterly visuals with some amazing costuming, and some utterly breathtaking, often dialogue-free sequences.” (Joshua Brunsting, Criterioncast.com)