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

"Love Is The Devil" stirs me to scope out James Bond now, Daniel Craig's an exciting choice I must say: content over celebrity.In response to the viewer who complained about the dislocated scenes that may or may not be relevant... Full review

Francis Bacon was one of the most acclaimed artists of his generation, and Derek Jacobi is one of the finest actors of his, but even this combination can't make 'Love is the Devil', John Maybury's biopic of Bacon's life, especially... Full review

This movie is a portrait of British painter Francis Bacon (played by Derek Jacobi) in the 1960s. In the beginning of the movie, a young man named Dyer (Daniel Craig), intent on burglarizing Bacon's flat, has a misstep and falls... Full review

When British painter Francis Bacon disturbs a burglar in his home, he invites George Dyer to come to bed with him in return for anything he wants to steal. This starts a relationship between the two that is as impatient... Full review

John Maybury's film presents artist Francis Bacon as an uncaring, disturbed, unhinged, genius who used people and life to feed his bizarre artistic talent. Even the way the film is shot (distorted images, odd angles, flashes of colour) shouts 'artist'.... Full review

The idea of falling is important in this story.George Dyer(play with perfection by Dani Greig)thought that he would be saved by Bacon but the painter only changed Dyer's physical falling into another more interior and destructive.We can see in different... Full review

'Love is the Devil' captures one crucial decade in the life of the English painter, Francis Bacon, considered by many, for the half century after World War II, the world's greatest living painter. This decade, the 1960s, is reflected through... Full review

Love is the Devil is amazingly rich in character and visuals. Just like Bacon's paintings, it is abstract, provocative, dark, and cruel, yet intensely mesmorizing. Maybury couldn't have picked a better actor than Derek Jacobi to portray the very disturbed... Full review

This film will insinuate itself into the images under your closed eyelids. Meat, blood, cuts, scars, wounds, assassinations, executions, dismemberments, car accidents, beatings, and burnings will all rush together in an explosion of pain, longing, and unsatisfied hungers. Homosexual sado-masochism,... Full review

An astounding visualization of Francis Bacon's life and work. Enter Francis Bacon's world as his pictures are put on screen in a haunting, dream-like fashion that grips the viewer from beginning to end. Both Derk Jacobi and Daniel Craig are... Full review

The soundtrack of electronic, dissonant music by Ryuichi Sakamoto provides an excellent aural complement.....In the course of the story we get interesting moments that help us understand.... ... Full Review

Bacon's sexual interests lean toward SM, but as the cruel Bacon loses interest in Dyer and begins to look elsewhere, the couple splits. 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. ... Full Review

Synopsis: A biography of the painter Francis Bacon and his relationship with a burglar. Based on the book "The Gilded Gutter Life of Francis Bacon," by Daniel Farson, "Love Is the Devil" chronicles the artist's destructive love affair with George... ... Full Article

A mackintoshed, moustachioed stranger - the suave Anton Walbrook - strolls into view. "Who am I?" he asks; "The author? A comp?re? A passer-by?" Anyway, he's the essence of fictional omniscience - "I am the incarnation of your desire -... ... Full Article

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NR -By Peter Henné For movie details, please click here . It's a safe bet that the inspiration of any artist who is worth his or her salt won't ever be quite uncovered, no matter how much psychological dissection one... ... Full Article