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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. Oct 7, 1998 · In the 1960s, British painter Francis Bacon (1909-1992) surprises a burglar and invites him to share his bed. The burglar, a working class man named George Dyer, thirty years younger than Bacon, accepts. Bacon finds Dyer's amorality and innocence attractive, introducing him to his Soho pals.

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    • Biography, Drama, Romance
    • John Maybury
    • 1998-10-07
  3. A biopic of noted painter Francis Bacon (Derek Jacobi), this film focuses on the artist's unlikely and tumultuous relationship with erstwhile thief George Dyer (Daniel Craig), who...

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    • Derek Jacobi
    • John Maybury
    • Biography, LGBTQ+
  4. May 25, 1998 · May 25, 1998 12:00am PT. Love Is the Devil — Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon. Unconventional, audacious and uncompromising in every sense, John Maybury's "Love Is the Devil" is a very...

  5. Sep 16, 1998 · After the unique beginning to their love affair, the well-connected and volatile artist assimilates Dyer into his circle of eccentric friends, as Dyer's struggle with addiction strains their bond. In the 1960s, British painter Francis Bacon surprises a burglar and invites him to share his bed.

  6. The essence of painter Francis Bacon is not a personal life lived on the sordid side but how he was forced to take in life. Seen through his central nervous system and eyes, we experience his world of fragments, like collage pieces of existence.

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  8. Exploring the territory where art, love and sex collide, Love is the Devil charts the powerful and dangerous relationship betweens one of Britains most controversial artists, Francis Bacon (Derek Jacobi) and his lover and muse George Dyer (Daniel Craig).