Caravaggio
Summary:
Writer/director Derek Jarman injects his patented iconoclasm in this biography of Renaissance artist Michelangelo Merisa da Caravaggio. Nigel Terry plays the title role, whom (according to Jarman) essentially told his own life story in his paintings. Caravaggio travelled among thieves and prostitutes, many of whom were his models. He once killed a man, kept a deaf/mute chi... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Nigel Terry - (Caravaggio)
Sean Bean - (Rannuccio Thomasoni)
Garry Cooper - (Davide)
Spencer Leigh - (Jerusaleme)
Tilda Swinton - (Lena)
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Review:
Derek Jarman's first 35mm film and one of his most mainstream works, this iconoclastic biopic explores the connections among sex, art, and money in the complicated life of 17th century painter Caravaggio. Deliberately injecting modern anachronisms into his portrait of Renaissance Italy, Jarman eschews traditional biography in favor of key ... Continue >>
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