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Rembrandt's J'Accuse...!
UNITED KINGDOM · 2008

Rembrandt's J'Accuse...!

Peter Greenaway
art analysis visual literacy Rembrandt conspiracy theory cultural criticism
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Synopsis

J'accuse is an 'essay-istic' 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 34 painted characters who have conspired to kill for their combined self-advantage. Greenaway leads us through Rembrandt's

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