Rembrandts JAccuse (2009)

Jaccuse is an essayistic documentary in which Greenaways fierce criticism of todays visual illiteracy is argued by means of a forensic search of Rembrandts 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 selfadvantage Greenaway leads us through Rembrandts paintings into 17th 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 beings However reality was different