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- An MVD Exclusive
- SKU: MVD2737D
- Format: DVD
- UPC: 760137273790
- Street Date: 04/28/20
- PreBook Date: 03/24/20
- Label: MVD Visual »
- Genre: Documentary
- Run Time: 104 mins
- Number of Discs: 1
- Audio: STEREO
- Year of Production: 2008
- Region Code: 0
- Box Lot: 30
- Territory: NORTH AMERICA
- Language: English
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- Director: Peter Greenaway
- Director: Peter Greenaway
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Rembrandt's J'accuse
An engrossing documentary from director Peter Greenaway on Rembrandt's "Nightwatch"
- List Price: $19.95
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- In Stock: 276
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An 'essayistic' documentary in which director Peter 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.
