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Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon is a 1998 film produced by The British Film Institute and BBC Film. It was written and directed by John Maybury and stars Derek Jacobi, Daniel Craig and Tilda Swinton.
When small-time thief George Dyer (Daniel Craig) breaks into Francis Bacon’s (Derek Jacobi) Soho flat he finds himself in a long-term relationship with the artist. Dyer inspires Bacon to new levels of creativity but his fragile sense of self struggles to survive in Bacon’s complex bohemian world.
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...
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon is a 1998 film produced by The British Film Institute and BBC Film. It was written and directed by J...
Jan 29, 2016 · Love is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998) looks at the artist’s little-remembered relationship with small-time criminal George Dyer. Wr...
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Love is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon is a 1998 film made for television by the BBC. It is a biography of the artist Francis Bacon, and concentrates on his strained relationship with George Dyer, a small time thief. Written and directed by John Maybury, based on Daniel Farson's book "The Gilded Gutter Life of Francis Bacon".
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Love Is the Devil ★★★½ 1998. British painter Francis Bacon (Jacobi), at the height of his career, takes on petty thief George Dyer (Craig) as his model, lover, and whipping-post. Bacon exposes his dim lover to a world of high-brow drunks and addicts who entertain themselves by humiliating others, with Bacon viciously leading the verbal ...