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Rembrandt's J'Accuse...!
  • Release Date: Oct 21, 2009
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  • Summary: There is a conspiracy depicted in Rembrandt’s “The Night Watch”. 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) … Expand

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  1. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: J. Hoberman
    90
    The filmmaker uncovers a foul, lurid, corrupt, and perversely compelling conspiracy--which is to say, he successfully turns The Night Watch into a Peter Greenaway film.
  2. Variety
    Reviewed by: Richard Kuipers
    90
    An enthralling docudrama that examines the Dutch master's most famous painting, "The Night Watch," for proof that it was responsible for his dramatic fall from grace.
  3. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: David Fear
    60
    Part alt–art-history lesson and part pilot for CSI: The Louvre, Peter Greenaway's deconstruction of Rembrandt's 1642 painting The Night Watch contends that the work is--after the Mona Lisa, Da Vinci's The Last Supper and the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel--the fourth best-known artwork in the world.

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