Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon

Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon

There's no beauty without the wound

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Release Date

9/16/1998

Runtime

92 mins

Genres

Overview

In the 1960s, British painter Francis Bacon surprises a burglar and invites him to share his bed. The burglar, a working class man named George Dyer, accepts. 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.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

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Revenue

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A portrait of passion and damage: two men from different worlds drawn together in 1960s London, their intimacy darkened by addiction and the weight of their incompatibilities. The film moves between tenderness and suffocation, never looking away from the wound.

Mood

MelancholicBittersweetClaustrophobic

Themes

LoveAddictionArt and creationClassGrief

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Meditative

Look

PainterlyHigh-contrastNaturalistic

Structure

Linear

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AddictionSexual content

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