Love is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998)
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This British biographical drama probes the life of painter Francis Bacon (1909-1992), critically acclaimed as the outstanding British painter of the latter half of the 20th Century. This unsympathetic portrait of Bacon (Derek Jacobi) begins when George Dyer (Daniel Craig), a small-time criminal from working-class East End environs, drops through a skylight to rob Bacon's studio -- and is ordered into bed by Bacon. The two become a familiar couple at Bacon's hangout, the Colony Room in Soho.
Oct 9, 1998 Wide
Apr 4, 2000
British Film Institute
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Derek Jacobi
Francis Bacon -
Daniel Craig
George Dyer -
Tilda Swinton
Muriel Belcher -
Adrian Scarborough
Daniel Farson -
Anne Lambton
Isabel Rawsthorne -
Karl Johnson
John Deakin -
Annabel Brooks
Henrietta Moraes -
Richard Newbold
Blond Billy -
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The extras on this DVD are few and far between
a celluloid portrait every bit as grimly disturbing as anything that Bacon himself produced, and far too darkly imaginative to be tarred with the 'biopic' brush.
Powerfully well-acted.
Looking through a color art book on Bacon actually would make an appropriate substitute to watching the film.
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- Love Is the Devil: Study for a portrait of Francis Bacon (DE)
- Love is the Devil (UK)
Deep, dark and unsettling. An artful obliteration of the line between genius and madness.