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- 2021
- Not Rated
- Strand Releasing
- 1 h 37 m
- 2021
- Not Rated
- Strand Releasing
- 1 h 37 m
Summary My Rembrandt is set in the world of the Old Masters and offers a mosaic of gripping stories in which unrestrained passion for Rembrandt’s paintings leads to dramatic developments and unexpected plot turns.
Directed By: Oeke Hoogendijk
Written By: Oeke Hoogendijk
- 2021
- Not Rated
- Strand Releasing
- 1 h 37 m
- 2021
- Not Rated
- Strand Releasing
- 1 h 37 m
My Rembrandt
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Summary My Rembrandt is set in the world of the Old Masters and offers a mosaic of gripping stories in which unrestrained passion for Rembrandt’s paintings leads to dramatic developments and unexpected plot turns.
Directed By: Oeke Hoogendijk
Written By: Oeke Hoogendijk
Where to Watch
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Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
72
71% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
29% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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Hoogendijk also has a keen eye for drama, and My Rembrandt is dotted with anecdotes that snowball into lively art-world clashes of ego.
This is among the most enjoyable art-docs of the last couple of years.
It features an awful lot of very rich, clever, cordially self-satisfied collectors and connoisseurs; their pink, twinkly-eyed faces positively beam out of the screen, and surely Hoogendijk is inviting us to wonder how Rembrandt himself would have painted them.
There’s much more to Oeke Hoogendijk’s My Rembrandt than initially meets the eye. Taking a close, curatorial look, not at the life, times and oeuvre of the great painter himself, but of contemporary relationships with his work, her latest documentary explores, to great effect, the motives for possession, obsession and ongoing fascination with the Dutch Old Master.
Less a film about the iconic 17th century Dutch painter of the film’s title than it is an acute, often fascinating and occasionally puzzling rumination on aspects of the other titular word — “my.”
While My Rembrandt poses heady questions about the difference between acquisitiveness and appreciation, it mostly plays like a straight art-world documentary that itself would have benefited from a more vertiginous, obsessive approach.
My Rembrandt is at its most interesting when struggling to reconcile the slow, careful work of art restoration with the crass, instant gratification on acquiring such rarefied objects.
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Production Company
Discours Film
Release Date Jan 6, 2021
Duration 1 h 37 m
Rating Not Rated
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Tagline Rembrandt, the grandmaster of intimacy, rocks the art world; 350 years after his death, many people, even entire nations are obsessed with his paintings.
Website
http://rembrandt-movie.com/
Awards
Nederlands Film Festival
• 1 Nomination