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Love is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
Running Time: 91 min.
MPAA Rating: NR
Sound By: Dolby
Produced By: / Arts Council of England / BBC / British Film Institute / Partners In Crime / Premiere Heure / Uplink
Released: October 09, 1998 (USA)
Release By: Artificial Eye Film Productions Strand Releasing

Summary:
This British biographical drama probes the life of painter Francis Bacon (1909-1992), critically acclaimed as the outstanding British painter of the latter half of the 20th Century. This unsympathetic portrait of Bacon (Derek Jacobi) begins when Geor... Full Summary >>

Cast and Crew:
Derek Jacobi (Francis Bacon)
Daniel Craig (George Dyer)
Tilda Swinton (Muriel Belcher)
Anne Lambton (Isabel Rawsthorne)
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Review:
The life of Francis Bacon may have been too vast, turbulent, and dark to be made into a film, but this sketch of a brief period of his life encounters its own problems. The film's limitations are two-fold: there are no finished Bacon paintings on vie ... Continue >>