2007 · drama · art · biopic
Nightwatching
Directed by Peter Greenaway2h 15m2007
An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a murderer in the painting The Night Watch.
Our read: Nightwatching (2007) reads as a sombre, measured, surreal drama · art · biopic entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / art, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- measured
- intense
- inventive
- bleak
- signature
Watching Nightwatching tonight? Spin for your lens.
Everyone on the couch spins once and gets one craft to watch for. After the credits, compare what you caught.
Your lens for tonight
?
Everyone on the couch gets one craft to watch for. Spin the wheel to get yours. Sound on: the narrator reads your mission.
Availability in the UK · via JustWatch
More info & search links
How Nightwatching feels to watch.
Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.
What watching it is actually like.
“You want stylized historical drama revealing dark secrets in Rembrandt's painting.”
Skip it tonight — You dislike explicit content or slow talky art films.
Eight films that feel like this one.
Closest in the twelve-axis space, not “people also liked”. All films like Nightwatching, with why →
Discussion
Make it a movie night.
Pick a mood, get a film the whole couch will enjoy, and give everyone something to watch for.
Pick tonight's film →