Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998)
poster Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon

Country:UK, 91 minutes

Spoken languages:English

Genres:Biography, Drama

Director(s):John Maybury

Writer(s):

Video Codec:Unknown

Number: 419

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IMDb Rating:
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6.6/10 (2.4K votes)

Certification:Unrated

Storyline:
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, 30 years Bacon's junior, accepts. Bacon finds Dyer's amorality and innocence attractive, introducing him to his Soho pals. In their sex life, Dyer dominates, Bacon is the masochist. Dyer's bouts with depression, his drinking and pill popping, and his satanic nightmares strain the relationship, as does his pain with Bacon's casual infidelities. Bacon paints, talks with wit, and, as Dyer spins out of control, begins to find him tiresome. Could Bacon care less?

Cast:
Derek Jacobi (as Francis Bacon), Daniel Craig (as George Dyer), Tilda Swinton (as Muriel Belcher), Anne Lambton (as Isabel Rawsthorne), Adrian Scarborough (as Daniel Farson)

Medium: Unknown,

Loaned: No

Aspect ratio: 1.85:1