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Brueghel's Cinema: Sound and Image in The Mill and the Cross

Brueghel's Cinema: Sound and Image in The Mill and the Cross Polish director Lech Majewski’s most recent film, The Mill and the Cross (2011) is a meticulous recreation of the environment of Pieter Brueghel the Elder’s painting, The Way to Calvary. As an imagining of the interior world of Brueghel’s painting and of the artist’s relationship with it, The Mill and the Cross explores the tension between the flatness of the painted image and the depth of experience of the protagonists. Paradoxically, this depth is achieved through the carefully designed soundtrack that gives a special resonance to imagery that reflects the painter’s vision. The Mill and the Cross isn’t photographed in the usual way, neither does it have a traditional narrative, and it doesn’t function within the schemes, which my professor Wojciech Jerzy Has once described as ‘the hydraulics of cinema,’ where you push something down here, and The New Soundtrack 1.2 (2011): 147–156 DOI: 10.3366/sound.2011.0016 # Edinburgh University Press www.eupjournals.com/SOUND KEYWORDS Majewski Brueghel Gibson Calvary Flanders 1. Pieter Brueghel the Elder (c. 1525–1569) was a Flemish renaissance painter and printmaker. Sometimes called ‘Peasant Brueghel’, he was the first in an artistic dynasty, being the father of Pieter Breughel the Younger and Jan Breughel the Elder. 2. ‘The Way http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The New Soundtrack Edinburgh University Press

Brueghel's Cinema: Sound and Image in The Mill and the Cross

Power, Dominic
The New Soundtrack , Volume 1 (2): 147 – Sep 1, 2011
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Polish director Lech Majewski’s most recent film, The Mill and the Cross (2011) is a meticulous recreation of the environment of Pieter Brueghel the Elder’s painting, The Way to Calvary. As an imagining of the interior world of Brueghel’s painting and of the artist’s relationship with it, The Mill and the Cross explores the tension between the flatness of the painted image and the depth of experience of the protagonists. Paradoxically, this depth is achieved through the carefully designed soundtrack that gives a special resonance to imagery that reflects the painter’s vision. The Mill and the Cross isn’t photographed in the usual way, neither does it have a traditional narrative, and it doesn’t function within the schemes, which my professor Wojciech Jerzy Has once described as ‘the hydraulics of cinema,’ where you push something down here, and The New Soundtrack 1.2 (2011): 147–156 DOI: 10.3366/sound.2011.0016 # Edinburgh University Press www.eupjournals.com/SOUND KEYWORDS Majewski Brueghel Gibson Calvary Flanders 1. Pieter Brueghel the Elder (c. 1525–1569) was a Flemish renaissance painter and printmaker. Sometimes called ‘Peasant Brueghel’, he was the first in an artistic dynasty, being the father of Pieter Breughel the Younger and Jan Breughel the Elder. 2. ‘The Way

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Published: Sep 1, 2011

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