The film, adapted from the novel of Belgian art historian Michael Francis Gibson, is a Renaissance thriller that revolves around the famous Nedland painter Borugail's masterpiece the Road of crucifixion. The Mill and the Cross is an art history class disguised as a movie. Its first public appearance was not in cinemas or film festivals, but in places such as the Louvre and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The film takes people back to the Netherlands in the 16th century, and Boruguel used a biblical story to allude to the cruelty of the Spanish rulers and the resistance of the people of the Netherlands. Letcher Mazusky combines the study of art history with film CGI and 3D technology to restore the social environment in which the painter created this work as well as his thoughts and state of mind at that time. Doesn't the agitation of standing in front of a work of art make us all dizzy and think it's the so-called creative impulse? It is worth mentioning that another masterpiece of Bruegel, the Hunter in the Snow, stimulates Swedish director Roy Anderson to create his next work, the long-named meditation on the Birds in the treetops, which is expected to be in Ming Dynasty.
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