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The Draughtsman's Contract
Why this pick
Greenaway’s meticulously composed period puzzle similarly turns commissioned art into evidence, using formal tableaux, coded details and coolly theatrical intrigue.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE2007 2h 15m GBR
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Nightwatching
Drama
CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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The Belly of an Architect
Why this pick
Its obsessive artist-protagonist, saturated visual design and baroque sense of cultural decay closely echo Nightwatching’s fusion of creativity, bodily vulnerability and accusation.
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Caravaggio
Why this pick
A sensuous, stylised portrait of a painter, where historical biography becomes lush anachronistic pageantry and art emerges from volatile patronage, desire and power.
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Goya's Ghosts
Why this pick
Another painter’s life becomes a lens on institutional cruelty and political terror, with sumptuous period imagery and a broader, emotionally direct historical sweep.
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The Last Vermeer
Why this pick
A polished art-world investigation in which paintings, performance and competing versions of truth create a restrained, period-rich mystery.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The film is centred on the creation of ''Night Watch (painting)'', Rembrandt's most famous work, depicting civilian militiamen who wanted to be celebrated in a group portrait. The film posits a Cabal to murder within the musketeer regiment of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch, and suggests that Rembrandt may have immortalized a conspiracy theory using subtle allegory in his group portrait of the regiment, subversion (politics) what was to have been a highly prestigious commission for both painter and subject.
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Martin Freeman
Rembrandt van Rijn
Matthew Walker
Matthias Van Der Meulen
Maciej Zakościelny
Egremont
Gerard Plunkett
Engelan
Rafał Mohr
Floris
Richard McCabe
Bloefeldt
Magdalena Smalara
Ineke
Grażyna Barszczewska
Banning Coq's Mother-in-Law