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  • 2009
  • Not Rated
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 26 m
  • 2009
  • Not Rated
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 26 m
Rembrandt's J'Accuse...!

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)

Directed By: Peter Greenaway

Written By: Peter Greenaway

  • 2009
  • Not Rated
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 26 m
  • 2009
  • Not Rated
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 26 m

Rembrandt's J'Accuse...!

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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)

Directed By: Peter Greenaway

Written By: Peter Greenaway

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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.
By J. Hoberman FULL REVIEW
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.
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Greenaway is first and foremost a deft storyteller and filmmaker -- and a cheeky art historian. An appreciation of art isn't necessary to enjoy Rembrandt's J'Accuse, and Greenaway goes to great lengths to draw the artistically illiterate into the story.
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Generally absorbing if sometimes fog-inducing.
By Manohla Dargis FULL REVIEW
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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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Production Company Submarine, Vrijzinnig Protestantse Radio Omroep (VPRO), Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), ARTE, Yleisradio (YLE), Cinatura
Release Date Oct 21, 2009
Duration 1 h 26 m
Rating Not Rated
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