LOVE IS THE DEVIL: STUDY FOR A PORTRAIT OF FRANCIS BACON (WIDESCREEN) [IMPORT]

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• Release Year: 1998
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: 'LOVE IS THE DEVIL, John Maybury's searing portrait of the English painter Francis Bacon (Derek Jacobi) at the height of his fame in the 1960's is one of the nastiest and most truthful portraits of the artist-as-monster ever filmed. Its story of the colossally self-absorbed painter and his self-destructive younger lover, George Dyer (Daniel Craig), begins when Bacon awakens in his studio one night to discover a burglar on the premises. Sizing up the thief as an appetizing piece of rough trade, Bacon makes a proposition: if the robber sheds his clothes and comes to bed with him, he promises he can have anything he wants…in presuming to take you inside mind and heart of a major artist, confronting the demonic aspect of the human condition, LOVE IS THE DEVIL, goes as far and as deep as any movie has dared.' - excerpted from Stephen Holden, THE NEW YORK TIMES
• Cast: Anne Lambton, Adrian Scarborough, Annabel Brooks, Derek Jacobi, Daniel Craig, Tilda Swinton, Karl Johnson, Richard Newbould, Ariel de Ravenel, Tallulah, Andy Linden, David Kennedy, Gary Hume, Damian Dibben, Antony Cotton, Anthony Ryding, Christian Martin, Ray Olley, Wesley Morgan, Nigel Travis, Eddie Kerr, George Clarke, David Windle, William Hoyland, Mark Umbers, Hamish Bowles, Jibby Beane, Gentuca Bini, James Birch, Liz Clarke, Jemima Cotter, Fiona Daly, John Dunbar, Victoria Fernandez, Natalie Gibson, Caroline Hardy, Charlie Hayward, Miles Johnson, Kate St. Johnston, Ulla Larson-Styles, Alistair Mathieson, Chiara Menage, James Mitchell, Gregor Muir, Lorcan O'Neil, Jon Spiteri, Francesco Vezzoli, Thalia Valeta, Marjorie Walker, Gillian Young, Maria Björnson, Judy Blame, John Byrne, Les Child, Jake Dodds, Daniel Farson, Sandy Fawkes, David Harrison, Malcolm Key, Philippe Krootchey, Steven Linard, Alan MacDonald, Norman Rosenthal, Thomasina Smith, Yolanda Sonnabend, Annie Symons, David Symons, Sue Tilley, Virginia Wetherell, Winford, Michael Wojas, Roger Bowdler, Duggie Fields, Pam Hogg, Ben Martin, Amanda Menage, William Middleton, Christina Moore, Elspeth Thompson, Tutu, Susie Bick, Lucy Ferry, Simon Goldberg, David Harvey, Rifat Ozbek, Anita Pallenberg, Jimmy Trindy, Andy Walsh, Gaby Agis, Melanie Arnold, Matt Cogger, Angus Fairhurst, Georgie Hopton, Marco Jackson, Sarah Lucas, Jean Mortimore, Lance Patterson, Johnnie Shand Kydd, Josephine Soughan, Dave Baby, John Maybury
• Director: John Maybury
• Runtime: 1:28
• Company: BBC Films, Strand Home Video
• Media Format: movie