Rembrandt's J'Accuse...!(2008)

Synopsis

An 'essayistic' 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 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 entirely ruled by twelve families. The notion exists of these regents as charitable and compassionate entities. However, reality was different.

Mood

• Gripping
• Tense
• Thought-provoking

Director

Peter Greenaway

Cast

• Martin Freeman
• Eva Birthistle
• Jodhi May

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