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.”
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The writer is a practising lawyer. He holds PHD in Political Science and heads a think-tank ‘Good Governance Forum’. He can be reached at [email protected]
Good governance is the aspiration of every citizen, yearning to have good things of life and to enjoy fundamental rights through better service delivery. Knowing well the sentiments of the people, the political parties, international organisations and non-governmental organisations also highlight “good governance” as their first priority.
In the same flow, the main focus of the PTI during and before the election had been to provide good governance and achieve the goals of sustainable development, with a focus on human and social development. Therefore, their repeated emphasis was on not to believe in raising mega projects like motorways, metro bus services or other super struct