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A fictional biography of painter Francis Bacon (Jacobi), it concentrates on his strained relationship with George Dyer (Craig), a small-time thief. The film draws heavily on the authorised biography of Bacon, The Gilded Gutter Life of Francis Bacon by Daniel Farson, and is dedicated to him.
May 25, 1998 · The contrast between Bacon’s derision when David Hockney offers his condolences and his private grief — shown succinctly in a desolate opening shot — makes the artist both a monster and a...
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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.[voice over]I watch him while he's sleeping. A prisoner of dreams. Fighting the battle he's always going to lose. But I'm powerless to help him as I'm powerless to help myself. So I watch and wait.[voice over]Submitting entirely to the service and pleasure of the dominant partner. This I find a catharsis, in that all responsibility is relinquished, every move is dictated. No decisions are yo...[voice over]What mad misfortunes make his eyes blaze with despair? I dream of some tough lover. Big as the Universe, his body blemished by shadows. He'll crush me, naked, in gloomy bars between his...[Dyer has just broken into Bacon's studio]Francis Bacon: And who might you be? Well, you're not much of a burglar, are you?[Dyer doesn't say a word]Francis Bacon: Take your clothes off, come to bed... and you can have whatever you want.Derek Jacobi - Francis BaconTilda Swinton - Muriel BelcherAnne Lambton - Isabel RawsthorneLove is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon quotes at the Internet Movie DatabaseLove is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon at Rotten TomatoesOct 9, 1998 · Cautiously subtitled “Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon,” it concentrates on the painter’s relationship with his lover and model George Dyer, the inspiration for a series of key works in...
Exploring the territory where art, love and sex collide, Love is the Devil charts the powerful and dangerous relationship betweens one of Britain’s most controversial artists, Francis Bacon (Derek Jacobi) and his lover and muse George Dyer (Daniel Craig).
Its story of the colossally self-absorbed painter and his self-destructive younger lover, George Dyer (Daniel Craig), begins when Bacon awakens in his studio one night to discover a burglar on...
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John Maybury’s portrait of painter Francis Bacon focuses on the disastrious relationship between Bacon and his model and lover George Dyer.
