Nightwatching
2007
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100% Tomatometer 13 Reviews 77% Audience Score 50+ Ratings The film explains how and why The Nightwatch, Rembrandt's J'Accuse, is a criticism of Amsterdam's oligarchy and plutocracy of...
“Rembrandt’s J’Accuse” is Greenaway’s critique on our visual illiteracy and uses the world’s fourth most popular painting – after Leonardo DaVinci’s “Mona Lisa (#1), his “The Last Supper (#2)” and Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling (#3) – to make a case for murder, conspiracy and the motivations of the 34 people ...
Oct 5, 2008 · Film Review: Rembrandt’s J’Accuse. 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...
Oct 20, 2009 · Sequentially dissecting 31 mysteries he spies on the giant canvas he scrutinizes with a coroner’s exactitude, Greenaway credits Rembrandt with tactics ranging from gay innuendo (a captain’s shadowed hand falling just above his lieutenant’s erect, crotch-level blade) to outrage at child prostitution.
Oct 21, 2009 · Greenaway’s new documentary film explains it all – the event, the motive, the conspirators, the murderers, the numerous clues and the outcome. And all the evidence is in the painting “The Night Watch”, Rembrandt’s indictment. (ContentFilm International) Documentary. Mystery.
Greenaway examines Rembrandt's painting to such an intense degree that it can seem ludicrous or amazingly astute. He identifies 34 so-called Mysteries about the painting and explains his theories about these mysteries.
