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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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...

  4. 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...

  5. 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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  6. 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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  8. 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 ...