Nightwatching
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Nightwatching is a film by Peter Greenaway currently in production. It stars Martin Freeman in the main role of Rembrandt, with actresses Eva Birthistle and Jodhi May in the roles of Saskia van Uylenburg and 'Geertje', respectively. Reinier van Brummelen is the director of photography. According to co-producer Jean Labadie, this film will be "a return to the Greenaway of The Draughtsman's Contract." [1]
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Centred on the creation of Night Watch, the painter Rembrandt's most famous work, this film posits a deadly conspiracy within the civilian musketeer regiment of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch, and Rembrandt's fateful decision to perhaps immortalize a conspiracy theory using subtle allegory in his group portrait of the regiment; thus subverting what was to have been a highly prestigious commission for both painter and subject. The film also depicts Rembrandt's personal life, and suggests he suffered serious consequences in later life as a result of the deadly accusation contained in his most famous painting.
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