Love Is the Devil (Blu-ray)
A Study For A Portrait Of Francis Bacon
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 30 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 20, 2015
- Originally Released: 1998
- Label: Strand Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Derek Jacobi, Daniel Craig & Tilda Swinton | |
Performer: | Anne Lambton, Karl Johnson, Adrian Scarborough & David Kennedy | |
Directed by | John Maybury | |
Screenwriting by | John Maybury | |
Composition by | Ryuichi Sakamoto | |
Produced by | Chiara Menage | |
Director of Photography: | John Mathieson |
Entertainment Reviews:
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.
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Film4
4 stars out of 5 -- John Maybury's deft, intelligent debut is brutal and engrossing...
Total Film
a riveting and disquieting portrait of a riveting and disquieting painter
culturevulture.net
...John Maybury has set out to make a film which looks like a Francis Bacon painting brought to life, and he has succeeded...
Box Office
4 stars out of 5 -- This underrated, unconventional biopic of the great painter doesn't skimp on the grit....Maybury plunges us into Bacon's gilded gutter life.
Total Film
...Arresting drama, fearlessly brought to life by [Jacobi and Craig]....Maybury gets the whole screen to look like Bacon cavases -- mangled and mesmerizing at once...
Entertainment Weekly
Looking through a color art book on Bacon actually would make an appropriate substitute to watching the film.
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Film Journal International
Product Description:
An intriguing biographical look at British painter Francis Bacon focusing on his turbulent and tragic relationship with lover George Dyer, a former boxer and small time thief. I, CLAUDIUS veteran Jacobi gives a fiery performance as the mischievous and emotionally chilly artist who is awakened one night in his ill-kempt studio by Dyer, who has come to rob him. Bacon offers him the chance to take whatever he wants if he stays the night. Dyer stays on as Bacon's lover, beginning a turbulent affair during the course of which both parties' insecurities and destructive natures are revealed. Directed by famed British video artist John Maybury.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 61,083
- UPC: 712267342037
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