Nightwatching

Nightwatch (or Nightwatching) is a film written and directed by Peter Greenaway. It is in pre-production stage and is said to start filming in September 2006. The film should be completed by next spring, or by the time of Cannes Film Festival in May 2007. It will star Matthew Macfadyen and Emily Mortimer [1]

Plot Details

This film revolves around the making of Night Watch, the painter Rembrandt's most famous work.

Taken from the preview page on Inuit Pictures website:

In 1642, at the height of his fame and wealth, Rembrandt, very reluctantly, is persuaded by his dying wife Saskia, to take on the commission of a large group portrait of the Amsterdam Militia, which will much later become known as The Nightwatch.

The film is being produced by Kees Kasander and co-produced by Jean Labadie's Bac Films, according to Variety. Labadie's company will handle the French distribution of the film.

According to co-producer Labadie, quoted from the same Variety article as above, this film will be "a return to the Greenaway of The Draughtsman's Contract"

Trivia

• Previously known as Nightwatching, but according to IMDb and a Variety article, it is now only referred to as Nightwatch. It should be noted, that on 15 April the title was again changed to Nightwatching on its IMDb page. [2]
• According to IMDb, the film's director of photography will be Reinier van Brummelen, who has shot Greenaway's latest film series, The Tulse Luper Suitcases, and also shared duties in 8½ Women with Sacha Vierny.

External links

• Nightwatch at IMDb