Nightwatching Trailer
To the delight of pretentious film snobs everywhere, Peter Greenaway has strung together another series of intricately composed shots of sex and decadence set to a minimalist score, this time covering the life of Rembrandt. Doughy-faced Martin Freeman certainly matches the plump look of the painter, and Greenaway's style has often been compared to Renaissance painting, but I can't help but think that maybe Rembrant would have wanted it differently.
Yes, by simply looking at such a work as Christ in the Storm on the Lake of Galilee, it's obvious Rembrant would have cast himself as a Lethal Weapon-era Mel Gibson. And besides being a painter, he'd also be leader of an F-14 squadron, whose brash, never-by-the-book piloting would surely get him killed if he weren't just so damn good.
"Chiroscur-you later, asshole," quips the Dutch master, ripping a hole through the side of an enemy plane. "Daaaaaamn," shouts Martin Lawrence, his co-pilot.