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

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Drama • Biography, Drama, LGBT, UR, 16-Sep-1998

Daniel Craig plays George Dyer, petty crook turned artist's muse, in this unconventional biopic of painter Francis Bacon (an uncanny portrayal by Derek Jacobi). The 1960s Soho demi-monde, centred on the infamous Colony Room, is artfully realised by director John Maybury, both seedy and seductive as Bacon's tempestuous relationship with Dyer plays out in a haze of drugs and alcohol.

Tags
Francis Bacon (1909-1992), English painting
Cast
Derek Jacobi Francis Bacon
Daniel Craig George Dyer
Anne Lambton Isabel Rawsthorne
Karl Johnson John Deakin
Tilda Swinton Muriel Belcher
Crew
John Maybury director

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