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Love Is The Devil Details

1998 Certificate 18 Certificate 18
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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 .. Read more

Starring Derek Jacobi, Daniel Craig, Tilda Swinton, Adrian Scarborough
Director John Maybury
Genres Drama, Gay/Lesbian

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Love Is The Devil

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. Bacon's sexual interests lean toward S?, but as the cruel Bacon loses interest in Dyer and begins to look elsewhere, the couple splits. Left to his own devices, Dyer turns to drugs and alcohol -- and a tragic suicide. Visual grotesqueries and a trancelike Ryuichi Sakamoto music score capture the essence of Bacon's work (although paintings by Bacon are not seen onscreen here). The film is told in the form of a flashback from Bacon's successful 1971 retrospective at the Grand Palais in Paris to a period in the mid-'60s. Bacon biographer Daniel Farson (The Gilded Gutter Life of Francis Bacon) served as consultant on the film.~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide

Starring Derek Jacobi, Daniel Craig, Tilda Swinton, Adrian Scarborough, Anne Lambton, Annabel Brooks, Karl Johnson, David Kennedy, Tracey Emin, Sarah Lucas, Gary Hume, Pam Hogg, Rifat Ozbek, Anita Pallenberg, Lucy Ferry
Director John Maybury
Studio BFI VIDEO
Run time DVD: 1 hr 30 mins
LOVEFiLM Instant: 1 hr 26 mins
Certificate Certificate 18 DVD
Certificate 18 LOVEFiLM Instant
Genres Drama, Gay/Lesbian
Language DVD: English
LOVEFiLM Instant: English
Released Production year: 1998

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