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

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

  • Director: John Maybury
  • Countries of origin: United Kingdom, France, Japan, United States
  • Language: English, French
  • Release date: October 7, 1998
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Love Is the Devil
  • "Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon" is a feature film directed by John Maybury and starring Daniel Wroughton Craig and Derek George Jacobi . It was released in Canada on September 16, 1998.
    The film tells the story of the painter Bacon who made George live with him by discovering the handle of George's robbery   .

    Details

    • Release date October 7, 1998
    • Filming locations London, England, UK
    • Production companies BBC Films, British Film Institute (BFI), Arts Council of England

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $354,004

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $63,202

    Gross worldwide

    $354,004

    Movie reviews

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    • By Eleonore 2022-11-19 12:30:03

      Come to my bed, or be taken away by the police

      "Now you have two choices: come to my bed, or be taken away by the police."

      These were the first words the painter Francis Bacon uttered when he first met George Dyer.

      In 1963, in a converted studio from a stable in the suburbs of South Kensington, a thief in a jacket and postman's hat visited him and fell down the chimney like a broken-winged angel - strange room, wall Mottled with paint, the floor is littered with...

    • By Eldridge 2022-10-29 01:03:59

      「Quotes」

      「Like a bomb exploding in reverse. Thoughts, ideas... fragments of images. Shards of memory, like shrapnel, all come back to me, and are forced back out in a cruel pastiche of experience.」


      「And who might you be? You're not much of a burglar, are you? Take your cloths off. Come to bed. And you can have whatever you want.」


      「Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.」


      「When I went into the house of pleasure, I didn't stay in the room...

    • By Alec 2022-05-11 23:15:07

      Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon

      Good love, I am still excited for George's softly whispered sorry before the start of SM, but then it was hooked by the distorted yellow-green main color picture. The film revealed a hidden sense of violence, and gradually Twisted, disintegrated, destroyed, and plummeted. The delusions behind Francis make it hard not to think about necrophilia. Although I found this film with impure motives at first, it didn't take long for me to find it, and I accidentally dug up a great movie.

      The...

    • By Lou 2022-05-11 22:55:22

      Everything is bizarre and makes sense

      What Craig saw, coincidentally, overlapped with the true and false emotional state at the time, and he looked at it uncertainly. It was very depressing, like an autobiography, like a deduction of an inner monologue.

      The inexplicable emotion, the inexplicable anger, and the inexplicable betrayal are all reasonable.


      I have forgotten the role of the queen, and even the ending, only the...

    • By Roderick 2022-05-11 19:42:45

      Their love goes both ways

      I know people tend to blame Francis for George's tragic ending, but their love goes both ways - the physical infidelity can be seen in both of them, it doesn't matter; The essential difference cannot be approached and hurt each other. My understanding is that their relationship that started with rough trade ended up with neither of them escaping, maybe it's the quote in the movie "once a stone is polished, you can't get it rough again. That's why whores are afraid of cut flowers. That means...

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    • By Price 2023-09-25 08:24:40

      A movie with Uncle Dan naked would be so hard to jerk off. However, the nude is really good...

    • By Joana 2023-09-23 21:05:59

      The subtitles are so bad, what a waste of fun, so many wonderful...

    • By Dina 2023-09-20 00:09:02

      All attempts to reproduce or counterpoint the painting in three-dimensional space: hugging and grappling human bodies, painting cheeks with paint, three mirrors in the bathroom (triptych), cubic installation in the window, on the floor Circular light projections, red frames and mirrors in a hotel room where a lover committed suicide, and even a camera window with an orange backdrop—visualize the recurring elements in the painting, removing the image of suffering from the “place of activity of...

    • By Keanu 2023-09-15 10:52:09

      Bad taste, bad taste, I like this kind of photography style created by drugs. After discovering that the protagonist is 007, the door to a new world was...

    • By Hayley 2023-09-15 09:07:56

      2.3 stars. Too literary and artistic, a famous male painter even managed to take him as a boyfriend when he met a thief who stole it. The lines are too deliberate, the editing is too deliberate, the atmosphere is there, but the story is not told smoothly, it is a bit difficult to...

    Movie plot

    He fell from the skylight, an angel or a devil. George ( Daniel Wroughton Craig ) in leather is nothing more than a thief who infiltrates the studio of painter Francis Bacon ( Derek George Jacobi ) . As he was rummaging through the boxes, Bacon stopped him and took him to the bed. Thus began the life of the thief and the painter. George began as Bacon's painting model and lover, appearing on occasions large and small. At an art...
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    Movie quotes

    • Francis Bacon: Once a stone has been polished, you can't return it to the rough. A flower that has been picked has only one fate. That's why whores consider it bad luck to receive cut flowers. They know that they are going to die.

    • Francis Bacon: Everybody, this is George. This is Muriel, Isabel, the beautiful Henrietta, and Deakin. Introduce yourselves. George is a little shy.

      George Dyer: Hello...

      John Deakin: So... who's Arthur and who's Martha?

      Muriel Belcher: Oh, piss off, Deakin! I'm really sick of it!

      John Deakin: I'll talk to you after you've had a shave...

    • Francis Bacon: There's a fleeting substance to reality. Ghostlike deposits. Sometimes, a man's shadow is more in the room than he is. The void which spreads across his face as he daydreams is the void of death.