Martin Freeman
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Nightwatching is a 2007 film about the artist Rembrandt and the creation of his 1642 painting The Night Watch. The film is directed by Peter Greenaway and stars Martin Freeman as Rembrandt, with Eva Birthistle as his wife Saskia van Uylenburg , Jodhi May as his lover Geertje Dircx , and Emily Holmes as his other lover Hendrickje Stoffels .
The film explains how and why The Nightwatch, Rembrandt's J'Accuse, is a criticism of Amsterdam's oligarchy and plutocracy of the Golden Age.
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- Martin Freeman
- Peter Greenaway
- Documentary, Mystery & Thriller
May 27, 2009 · Greenaway leads us through Rembrandt's paintings into 17th century Amsterdam. He paints a world that is democratic in principle, but is almost entirely ruled by twelve families. The notion exists of these regents as charitable and compassionate beings.
Oct 20, 2009 · In “Rembrandt’s J’Accuse,” his generally absorbing if sometimes fog-inducing feature-length documentary investigation into the mysteries of the Rembrandt painting “The Night Watch,”...
- Peter Greenaway
An essayistic documentary in which director Peter Greenaway's fierce criticism of today's visual illiteracy is argued by means of a forensic deep-dive into Rembrandt's famed oil painting The Night Watch - a masterpiece of Western art history that portrays thirty-four subjects in seventeenth-century Amsterdam, all of whom may be entwined in a ...
Greenaway explains the background, the context, the conspiracy, the murder and the motives of all its 34 painted characters who have conspired to kill for their combined self-advantage. Greenaway leads us through Rembrandt's paintings into 17th century Amsterdam.
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An 'essayistic' documentary in which Greenaway's fierce criticism of today's visual illiteracy is argued by means of a forensic search of Rembrandt's Nightwatch.
