
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
There's no beauty without the wound
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9/16/1998Runtime
92 minsGenres
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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.

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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.
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Derek Jacobi
Francis Bacon

Daniel Craig
George Dyer

Tilda Swinton
Muriel Belcher

Anne Lambton
Isabel Rawsthorne

Adrian Scarborough
Daniel Farson

Karl Johnson
John Deakin

Annabel Brooks
Henrietta Moreas

Ulla Larson-Styles
Parisian Art World

Anita Pallenberg
Casino

Mark Umbers
PC Denham
Richard Newbould
Blonde Billy
Ariel de Ravenel
French Official
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