Que Viva Mexico!
Que Viva Mexico!
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Eisenstein's long-lost diamond-in-the-rough, shot by the great Eduard Tisse, and financed by Upton Sinclair. Reconstructed in 1979 by Grigori Alexandrov, the last surviving member of Eisenstein''s Mexican team, Que Viva Mexico is a silent film narrated in Russian and subtitled in English. It is divided into segments: a wedding, a bullfight, a fiesta, a dramatized abortive uprising by peons against feudal masters at the turn of the century. Anyone who has seen the lyrical, ravishing images of Eduard Tisse''s Que Viva Mexico will revel in the priceless beauty of Eisenstein''s incomplete master-work. In Russian with English subtitles. Sergei Eisenstein/Grigori Alexandrov---USSR---1931/1979---85 mins.

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Eisenstein's Que Viva Mexico has long been a lost film, available only as a series of still photographs. This version, resurrected from footage found at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and edited by Grigori Alexandrov, is an oddity. Tisse's cinematography shines out in diagonal compositions and beautiful textures and patterns. However, the imposed story comes across as gauche and condescending -- heroic workers vs. wicked gringos, too true alas, but not realized with Eisenstein's witty brilliance.

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