Rembrandt (1999)
Rembrandt is a German-French-Dutch biography from 1999 and is based on the Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn .
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Rembrandt van Rijn remembers his life in retrospect, beginning with his childhood in his father's mill.
Arriving in Amsterdam as a young artist , he met the art dealer Hendrick van Uylenburgh and the art collector Jan Six . A little later he paints The Anatomy of Dr. Tulip . Uylenburgh introduces him to his cousin Saskia van Uylenburgh . Rembrandt and Saskia fall in love and get married. Saskia becomes pregnant but has a miscarriage. The daughter Cornelia, who was born a little later, also dies early. Son Titus, however, is born healthy.
Shortly afterwards Rembrandt was commissioned by Frans Banning Cocq to paint “ The Night Watch ”. While he was working on the painting, Saskia fell ill and bequeathed her fortune to Rembrandt and Titus before she died. While this aroused the resentment of the Uylenburgh family, Rembrandt fell in favor of upper society because his pictures were considered "too dark"; his debts grow.
Rembrandt takes refuge in relationships with his housekeepers, first Geertje Dircx , then Hendrickje Stoffels . Hendrickje Stoffels soon becomes pregnant and gives birth to a child.
Because of his growing debt, Rembrandt's paintings are auctioned. To save him from ruin, Hendrickje and Titus open an art dealership with Rembrandt as an employee. Rembrandt and Hendrickje's daughter Cornelia is born. But Hendrickje also dies a little later; Titus dies in 1668.
Marked by grief, Rembrandt died on October 4, 1669.
Awards
- In 1999 the film received a nomination in the category Best Film at the Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata .
- In 2000 the film won the César in the category of best production design ( Philippe Chiffre ) and was nominated in the category of best costumes ( Eve-Marie Arnault ).
Reviews
According to the lexicon of international films , the film made by Charles Matton is a “splendid and detailed artist biography of the Dutch baroque painter Rembrandt van Rijn”, who convinces “through long side glances at the fate of three women at the artist's side”. "Apart from a few wooden scenes, the excellent acting main actor and his equally convincing partners give the story the necessary dramaturgical balance."
The Berliner Zeitung , according to the film "a painter shows how it Klein Erna and image of women imagine '- somehow in character waver, but steadily purifying the tireless, almost retreat-like creation. Rembrandt, embodied by Klaus Maria Brandauer, is the product of such an accumulation of platitudes: a bogey without individual character, a painter who paints and nothing else. "
For the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Matton's Rembrandt biography is a film "which puzzles and distorts the image of the artist star of the 17th century, Rembrandt van Rijn."
The Tagesspiegel confirms that the film has never come up with a fable of his own. Instead, the sluggishly staged film is content with "recreating as many Rembrandt paintings as possible - from the ' Anatomy of Doctor Tulp ' to the ' Return of the Prodigal Son ' - in living pictures." The only positive surprise is Klaus Maria Brandauer, who " Rembrandt with quiet lacony: as the ultimate Rembrandtauer, as it stands in the simple light, "play.
Web links
- Rembrandt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Interview with Klaus-Maria Brandauer - "Kubrick was my idol". In: Der Spiegel . May 8, 2001, Retrieved July 12, 2019 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Rembrandt. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 23, 2017 .
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung: "Klaus Maria Brandauer wants to be 'Rembrandt', but remains only Klaus Maria Brandauer - still life with a woman's breast", 3rd Main 2001
- ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: “'Rembrandt': The painter as a darkened genius”, May 3, 2001
- ↑ a b c Der Tagesspiegel: “'Rembrandt': The fame, the ruin”, May 3, 2001