Nightwatching: Directed by Peter Greenaway. With Martin Freeman, Emily Holmes, Eva Birthistle, Jodhi May. An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt’s romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a murderer in the painting ‘The Night Watch’. An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt’s romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a murderer in the painting The Night Watch.