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Aug 5, 2019 · rembrandt’s j’accuse (nightwatching) (director/writer: Peter Greenaway; cinematographer: Reinier van Brummelen ; editor: Karen Porter; music: Wlodzimierz Pawlik ; cast: Martin Freeman ( Rembrandt van Rijn ), Emily Holmes (Hendrickje), Jodhi May (Geertje), Toby Jones (Gerard Dou) , Eva Birthistle ( Saskia ), Natalie Press ( Marieke ...
Greenaway explains the background, the context, the conspiracy, the murder and the motives of all its thirty-four painted characters who have conspired to kill for their combined self-advantage. Greenaway leads us through Rembrandt's paintings into seventeenth-century Amsterdam. He paints a world that is democratic in principle, but is almost ...
Oct 5, 2008 · Combining Derek Jarman's "Caravaggio" and the director's own painterly "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover," Peter Greenaway turns fine art into a worthy murder mystery.
Oct 20, 2009 · Review: Rembrandt’s J’Accuse. Most viewers are unlikely to share the depth of Peter Greenaway’s art-geek obsession with this purported murder mystery in oils. by Bill Weber. October 20, 2009. Photo: Submarine. Peter Greenaway comes on like Oliver Stone transformed into a wry art scholar in Rembrandt’s J’Accuse, an “investigation ...
Oct 4, 2008 · J'accuse is an 'essay-istic' documentary in which Greenaway's fierce criticism of today's visual illiteracy is argued by means of a forensic search of Rembrandt's Nightwatch. 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 ...
Oct 24, 2008 · REMBRANDT'S J'ACCUSE. Behind Rembrandt's masterpiece "The Night Watch" lies an intricate conspiracy. Peter Greenaway accompanies us in the discovery of numerous clues hidden in the canvas which reveal vendettas, corruption and power games. Like the condemnation in Zola's "J'accuse" (1890), the accusations have been accurately recorded, though ...
Oct 5, 2008 · Combining Derek Jarman's "Caravaggio" and the director's own painterly "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover," Peter Greenaway turns fine art into a worthy murder mystery.
