Biography of British painter Francis Bacon focuses on his relationship with his lover, George Dyer, a former small time crook.
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Title: Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998)
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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 | |
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Annabel Brooks | ... | Henrietta Moraes |
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Richard Newbould | ... | Blonde Billy (as Richard Newbold) |
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Ariel de Ravenel | ... | French Official |
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Tallulah | ... | Ian Board |
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Andy Linden | ... | Ken Bidwell |
| David Kennedy | ... | Joe Furneval | |
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Gary Hume | ... | Volker Dix |
| Damian Dibben | ... | Brighton Rent Boys | |
| Antony Cotton | ... | Brighton Rent Boys | |
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In the 1960s, British painter Francis Bacon (1909-1992) surprises a burglar and invites him to share his bed. The burglar, a working class man named George Dyer, 30 years Bacon's junior, accepts. Bacon finds Dyer's amorality and innocence attractive, introducing him to his Soho pals. In their sex life, Dyer dominates, Bacon is the masochist. Dyer's bouts with depression, his drinking and pill popping, and his satanic nightmares strain the relationship, as does his pain with Bacon's casual infidelities. Bacon paints, talks with wit, and, as Dyer spins out of control, begins to find him tiresome. Could Bacon care less? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
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Opening Weekend:
£46,077 (United Kingdom), 20 September 1998, Limited ReleaseOpening Weekend USA:
$63,202, 11 October 1998, Limited ReleaseGross USA:
$343,023, 19 December 1999Company Credits
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Performed by Al Bowlly
Written by Vincent Youmans (as Youmans), Harold Adamson (as Adamson) & Mack Gordon (as Gordon)
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Francis Bacon: In all the motor accidents I've seen, people strewn across the road, the first thing you think of is the strange beauty, the vision of it, before you think of trying to do anything. It's to do with the unusualness of it. I once saw a bad car accident on the large road, and the bodies were strewn about with broken glass from the car and the blood and the various possessions, and it was, in fact, very beautiful. I think the beauty in it is terribly elusive, but it just happened to be the ...See more »
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This is a film about relationships, relationships which flow over and between Bacon's life and work. I come away from the film knowing much more than I ever knew and felt about Bacon and his work, and also the period in which he worked. I would liked to have seen much more of the famous (or should that be infamous) "Colony Room" where Bacon done his drinking and socialzing. Daniel Craig is spot on as the East End spiv and petite crook. Tilda Swinton plays the hilariously foul-mouthed Muriel Belcher and I am sure that Belcher would make make a good central character in another film. The film is not about Bacon's paintings, but the man himself. His relationships his world. London could never ever been as seedy as this but what a great place to search out life.