Rembrandt's J'Accuse...!

An 'essayistic' documentary in which 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.

Rembrandt's J'Accuse...! is a 2009 mystery documentary movie directed by Peter Greenaway, starring Eva Birthistle, Martin Freeman, Emily Holmes. It holds an IMDb rating of 7.2/10 from 1,054 votes and runs 1h 26m.