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CARAVAGGIO

By Derek JARMAN

MIRACLE FILM DISTRIBUTION - as DISTR Theatrical

Art - Culture - Completed 1986

- Year of production
- 1986
- Genres
- Art - Culture, Drama, Historical
- Countries
- UNITED KINGDOM
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 93 mn
- Director(s)
- Derek JARMAN
- Writer(s)
- Derek JARMAN
- Cast
- Nigel TERRY, Dexter FLETCHER, Sean BEAN, Dawn ARCHIBALD, Tilda SWINTON, Noam ALMAZ
- Producer(s)
- British FILM INSTITUTE (BFI - BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE)
- Synopsis
- Hugely significant to Jarman, his biopic of the Italian Baroque painter with whom he strongly identified was developed over many years. Shot on 35mm film, it looks incredible: the tableaux and sets project rich, painterly depth, brightness and colour. Sean Bean and Tilda Swinton deliver fine performances as the model and partner caught up in a complex love triangle with the famous artist, as Caravaggio struggles to reconcile the demands of authority (in the form of his patrons) with his own artistic and sexual needs – a tension then very close to Jarman’s heart.