[Greenaway] occasionally quotes Eisenstein aesthetically (and directly through clips) but otherwise offers his trademark barrage of raucous postmodernism: image overlays, colors desaturating before our eyes, split-screen triptychs, hyper-realized symbolism, green-screened backdrops, and other grandiose CGI effects — as well as, naturally, montage. Rigorous and outrageous, Greenaway's defiant approach to narrative only offers insight into his character, not Eisenstein's.
Aaron Hillis
February 2, 2016