Love is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998)
Country: GB/FR/JAP
Technical: col 91m
Director: John Maybury
Cast: Derek Jacobi, Daniel Craig
Synopsis:
The painter Francis Bacon surprises a burglar, whom he takes as his lover and eventually destroys through his inability to engage emotionally with anything other than his art.
Review:
A soul-destroying wallow in the self-indulgence of genius for most viewers, particularly those unversed in the merits of this one's art, but packaged more quirkily than most, with many memorable lines and flamboyant visual strokes.
Country: GB/FR/JAP
Technical: col 91m
Director: John Maybury
Cast: Derek Jacobi, Daniel Craig
Synopsis:
The painter Francis Bacon surprises a burglar, whom he takes as his lover and eventually destroys through his inability to engage emotionally with anything other than his art.
Review:
A soul-destroying wallow in the self-indulgence of genius for most viewers, particularly those unversed in the merits of this one's art, but packaged more quirkily than most, with many memorable lines and flamboyant visual strokes.
Country: GB/FR/JAP
Technical: col 91m
Director: John Maybury
Cast: Derek Jacobi, Daniel Craig
Synopsis:
The painter Francis Bacon surprises a burglar, whom he takes as his lover and eventually destroys through his inability to engage emotionally with anything other than his art.
Review:
A soul-destroying wallow in the self-indulgence of genius for most viewers, particularly those unversed in the merits of this one's art, but packaged more quirkily than most, with many memorable lines and flamboyant visual strokes.