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Love is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon

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Love is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
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NR,1hr 31min
Genre:
Drama
Release:
1998
Director:
John Maybury
Distributor:
Strand Home Video
Starring:
Derek Jacobi, Daniel Craig, Tilda Swinton  ...more
Synopsis: 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 ... Full Synopsis
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Tom Wiener, AMG Review
The life of Francis Bacon may have been too vast, turbulent, and dark to be made into a film, but this sketch of a brief period of his life encounters its own problems. The film's limitations are two-fold: there are no finished Bacon paintings on view (presumably, rights were too expensive or difficult to obtain), and Bacon is not going to come off well, given the outcome of this episode, an affair ... Full Review
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Derek Jacobi
Francis Bacon
Daniel Craig
George Dyer
Tilda Swinton
Muriel Belcher
Anne Lambton
Isabel Rawsthorne
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