Venice. Nightwatching. – GreenCine Daily

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September 8, 2007 8:29 am
By: tiffreviews

GreenCine Daily - ”There are said to be 51 mysteries in Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn’s masterpiece The Night Watch and British writer and director Peter Greenaway sets out to explain all of them in his richly detailed but lumbering and theatrical drama Nightwatching,” writes Ray Bennett in the Hollywood Reporter. “In look and tone Nightwatching reps a return to the Peter Greenaway style of old, though whether it’s a return to form is another matter,” writes Jay Weissberg in Variety. “Revolutionary in how it presents a group of men (and two incongruous girls, or dwarves) not as bold, static nobles but in a cacophony of poses and movement, the painting lends itself to historical leaps of imagination, and Greenaway plunges right in.”… [Full Story]

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