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Peter Greenaway explores the romantic and professional life of Rembrandt and the mystery surrounding his most famous work of art, The Night Watch in this 2006 film, now to be released on DVD in March.
Featuring a cast led by Martin Freeman, (The Office, Love Actually) and starring Eva Birthistle, (The Children, Breakfast on Pluto) Jodhi May, (Emma, Defiance) Toby Jones, (Frost/Nixon, Infamous) and Nathalie Press, (My Summer of Love, Bleak House) Nightwatching is set in the year 1642, which marks a dramatic turning point in the life of Rembrandt, a sudden fall from grace as a wealthy respected celebrity, into a broken and discredited pauper.
When Rembrandt reluctantly agrees to paint the Amsterdam Musketeer Militia in a group portrait that will later become to be known as ‘The Night Watch’, he soon discovers that there is a foul conspiracy afoot amongst the Amsterdam merchants playing at soldiers, an insidious plot surrounding a thirst for power and wealth, undertaken with the bloodiest of means.
Determined to expose the conspirators and their plot, Rembrandt builds his accusation meticulously in the form of the commissioned painting.
Unveiling to the world what will become his most celebrated work; Rembrandt has also unleashed exacting revenge from the conspirators in question, sealing his fate in history and imminent downfall.
Hre is an extract from the movie.
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