Nightwatching, Greenaway's fictional foray into art-history detecting, was made a year before the more spare Rembrandt's J'Accuse and focuses on the painter himself, played with gusto by Martin Freeman. Shifting between Rembrandt's relations with three women-his wife, model, and servant-and the complications that arise when he accepts a commission to paint a group portrait, Nightwatching uses a series of elegant tableaux to dramatize two mysteries-that of Rembrandt's life, of which little is known, and that of the iconography of his famous painting The Night Watch. Intertwining it all is a murder.