John Maybury – Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998)

Biography of British painter Francis Bacon focuses on his relationship with his lover, George Dyer, a former small time crook.

Adrian Searle:
Love Is the Devil is a devilish brew of naturalism, Baconesque film effects, history and gossip. It is a warped anthropological detour into the fag end of 1950s Soho bohemia, dragged too far into the 1960s but it is also a tragic love story, with astonishing performances and character cameos. It was always bound to be trouble, and was inevitably going to get into trouble, even before filming began.

Everyone likes a bit of rough – the frisson of danger and perversion. It is a cliche of how artists are supposed to behave. Bacon fitted the bill perfectly. He was by all accounts a deeply complex man. He was also, not to be forgotten, highly intelligent, profoundly manipulative, contrary, slippery and a superb performer. He invented not just a style (Bacon was self-taught), but a personality, as both an artist and a man. He also looked good, a kind of bruiser intellectual who brushed his teeth with Vim, dyed his hair with boot polish and went about wearing women’s undies.

Love.Is.the.Devil.Study.for.a.Portrait.of.Francis.Bacon.1998.720p.BluRay.FLAC2.0.x264-CRiSC.mkv

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