The Mill and the Cross

The film is adapted from the novel by Belgian art historian Michael Francis Gibson. It is a thriller set in the Renaissance era and revolves around the famous work "The Passion of the Cross" by the famous Dutch painter Borughel. "The Mill and the Cross" is an art history lesson disguised as a movie. Its first public appearance was not in a cinema or a film festival, but in places like the Louvre and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The film takes people back to the Netherlands in the 16th century. When Brueghel created "The Passion of the Cross", he used a biblical story to allude to the cruelty of the Spanish rulers at that time and the resistance of the Dutch people. Letcher Mazursky combined art history research with film CGI and 3D technology in an attempt to restore the social environment in which the painter lived when he created this work, as well as his thoughts and mood at the time. Isn’t the excitement of standing in front of a work of art what makes us all dizzy and think it is the so-called creative impulse? It is worth mentioning that Bruegel's other masterpiece "Hunters in the Snow" inspired Swedish director Roy Anderson to create his next work, the very long-titled "Birds Meditating on Existence in the Treetops". This work is expected to be unveiled at the Cannes or Venice Film Festival next year.