Nightwatching reviews
Review by on 30 Sep 2008
Strange to end the festival with Greenaway launching into his 'moribund cinema' routine. The festival proves that this viewpoint is at best a flawed one! Nightwatching is beautiful to look at, but is perhaps too dialogue heavy (and Greenaway accuses cinema of being too literate!). Interesting piece though.
Strange to end the festival with Greenaway launching into his 'moribund cinema' routine. The festival proves that this viewpoint is at best a flawed one! Nightwatching is beautiful to look at, but is perhaps too dialogue heavy (and Greenaway accuses cinema of being too literate!). Interesting piece though.
Review by on 28 Sep 2008
A late addition to the program, and unsurprisingly a sell-out.
It's a Peter Greenaway film, earthy, dreamlike, more theatrical tableaux than realist narrative, never afraid to ignore the 4th wall, and, if there is to be sex on screen, never coy about it.
The secret history of the famous painting usually known as The Night Watch, adding conspiracy theory overtones to the commonly held view that this -- rather than the overall shift in fashions -- was the painting that broke his reputation.
A late addition to the program, and unsurprisingly a sell-out.It's a Peter Greenaway film, earthy, dreamlike, more theatrical tableaux than realist narrative, never afraid to ignore the 4th wall, and, if there is to be sex on screen, never coy about it.
The secret history of the famous painting usually known as The Night Watch, adding conspiracy theory overtones to the commonly held view that this -- rather than the overall shift in fashions -- was the painting that broke his reputation.
Film details
Nightwatching
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Director: Peter Greenaway
Canada/France/Germany/Poland/Netherlands/UK, 2007.
134 mins. English.
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