Super artsy director Peter Greenaway gives us his edition of the DaVinci Code with Rembrandt in the starring role and his famous painting - the fourth most famous painting in the western world we're told by Greenaway - The Night Porter, front and centre in a tale of murder among Amsterdam's military elite in the 17th century. The documentary recounts 30 evidentiary pieces of a puzzle found within the painting that purportedly point to murder, cover-up, a homosexual relationship and revenge. While it is all very intriguing and is certainly perfectly visually constructed as only Greenaway’s can do, Rembrandt’s J’accuse falls short. The documentary is slow and had me nodding a couple of times, I think a failure of the documentary’s non-linear construction and the fact there’s just too many characters to get your head around. Yet, read as a sly comment by Greenaway on our inability to see the forest for the trees, and worse, our tendency to take things at face value rather delve beneath the obvious messaging, Rembrandt’s J’accuse does make one go ‘hmmmm’.
My rating 5 out of 10.
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