''Eisenstein in Guanajuato'' is a 2015

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romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by

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. Starring

Elmer Bäck Elmer Bäck (born 18 October 1981) is a Finnish actor who is best known for starring in a 2015 Peter Greenaway film ''Eisenstein in Guanajuato''. He has been in theatrical productions, in movies and on television in Finland, and is part of the the ...

as Soviet film director

Sergei Eisenstein Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (russian: Сергей Михайлович Эйзенштейн, p=sʲɪrˈɡʲej mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ ɪjzʲɪnˈʂtʲejn, 2=Sergey Mikhaylovich Eyzenshteyn; 11 February 1948) was a Soviet film director, scree ...

, alongside Stelio Savante, Lisa Owen, Maya Zapata, Luis Alberti, Jakob Öhrman, Rasmus Slätis, and Raino Ranta, the film is an

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between companies in the Netherlands, Mexico, Belgium, Finland and France.

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Release

''Eisenstein in Guanajuato'' premiered at the

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in the main competition section on 11 February 2015. The film was voted to the bottom place by the Screen International's critics’ jury and subsequently ignored by the official jury. The film opened theatrically 18 June in the Netherlands, 8 July in France, 4 September in Finland, and 22 January 2016 in Mexico. It was granted a very limited theatrical release in the United States on 5 February 2016.

Critical reception

The film received mixed reviews from critics. On

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, the film has a 55% score based on 38 reviews, with an average rating of 6/10. The site's consensus states: "''Eisenstein in Guanajuato'' is certainly bold, but its provocations aren't always enough to overcome a lack of depth and clear narrative purpose."

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reports a 60 out of 100 rating based on 16 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Critic and author

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praised Greenaway's "...own post-modern pictorialism still as ingenious, flashy and painstakingly wrought in his seventies." He also criticised the film heavily for its salaciousness and many historical inaccuracies, stating that of Eisenstein's wife Pera Atasheva and his many friends, confidants and colleagues: "None of these would recognise the Eisenstein they knew in Greenaway’s Guanajuato."

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Berlinale 2015 film notes
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