My Rembrandt Review: An Alluring Documentary Portrait of People Who Own Rembrandt Portraits lmtonline.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lmtonline.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Christopher Knight
Los Angeles Times
The 2019 documentary My Rembrandt, available for streaming, is less a film about the iconic 17th century Dutch painter of the film s title than it is an acute, often fascinating and occasionally puzzling rumination on aspects of the other titular word â my.
One lesson of the film, ably helmed by director Oeke Hoogendijk, is that to love an artist s work is to possess it, whether physically, intellectually, emotionally or any combination thereof â including, perhaps, corruptly. Passion for an artist s work comes in many forms.
Hoogendijk knows her way around Dutch Golden Age painting and today s complicated cultural landscape, having spent a decade documenting the renovation and expansion of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam s incomparable repository. The success of that much-admired earlier film likely gave her unusual access to the art-world elite who open up in My Rembrandt.
From kissing a portrait of a woman on the lips, to tricking a co-buyer out of a bargain, acquiring a rare work by the Dutch painter does not always bring out the best in people
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The 2019 documentary “My Rembrandt,” available for streaming beginning Wednesday, is less a film about the iconic 17th century Dutch painter of the film’s title than it is an acute, often fascinating and occasionally puzzling rumination on aspects of the other titular word “my.”
One lesson of the film, ably helmed by director Oeke Hoogendijk, is that to love an artist’s work is to possess it, whether physically, intellectually, emotionally or any combination thereof including, perhaps, corruptly. Passion for an artist’s work comes in many forms.
Hoogendijk knows her way around Dutch Golden Age painting and today’s complicated cultural landscape, having spent a decade documenting the renovation and expansion of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s incomparable repository. The success of that much-admired earlier film likely gave her unusual access to the art-world elite who open up in “My Rembrandt.”