Nightwatching

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Nightwatching

R,

2007,

2h 14m,

Biography/

History/

Drama/

Mystery & Thriller

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78%

18 Reviews

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1,000+ Ratings

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18 Reviews

62%

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1,000+ Ratings

Rembrandt van Rijn's professional and romantic life.

Kevin Maher

The Times (UK)

Jul 6, 2010

The formal proscenium staging and classical lighting are all Greenaway's, but the central fulminating performance from Freeman is the real revelation.

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

Mar 26, 2010

3/5

Often, Greenaway's handling of actors is his weakest point: but he gets fiercely intelligent performances here from Martin Freeman and Eva Birthistle as the artist and his wife Saskia.

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Nigel Andrews

Financial Times

Mar 25, 2010

3/5

There is a vertiginous sense that Freeman could, after all, have been a contender, if not in the Laughton weight class.

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Ken Eisner

Georgia Straight

Jul 6, 2010

At more than two hours, with almost no depiction of the groundbreaking painter at work and few views of the paintings themselves, there's time to spread a lot of highfalutin manure.

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

May 18, 2010

B

Like all Greenaway films, it's not for all tastes.

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Quentin Clarke

Film4

Apr 14, 2010

3/5

If you're aware of Peter Greenaway's work you'll know to expect luscious visuals, plenteous sex and nudity, and a certain degree of impenetrability

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Poe S

Mar 1, 2017

Martin Freeman stars as Rembrandt in Greenaway's film that posits that Rembrandt discovered that a murder had been concealed by the members of the militia company depicted in "The Night Watch" and that he embedded clues in the painting as an accusation. It's an odd film that incorporates deliberate anachronisms, mainly in the way characters speak, and references back to earlier Greenaway films, mainly "The Draughtsman's Contract" and "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover". It's also a very deliberately profane and raunchy film. If you're dying to see Freeman naked ... look no further.

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Synopsis

Rembrandt van Rijn's professional and romantic life.

Director: Peter Greenaway
Screenwriter: Peter Greenaway
Production Co: Gremi Film Production, Yeti Films, Axiom Films, Wales Creative IP Fund, UK Film Council, ContentFilm International
Rating: R (Language|Graphic Nudity|Strong Sexual Content)
Genre: Biography, History, Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 28, 2020
Runtime: 2h 14m

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