• Director: John Maybury
  • Release Year: 1998
  • Production Country: United Kingdom, France, Japan
  • Language: English

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

Description

A skylight shatters and a thief falls at an artist’s feet, beginning a relationship where each man enjoys his perverse torments of the other; while unsophisticated George may dominate Francis physically, Francis is inspired by George’s inner torments, seducing him into a world of drink, drugs, and hedonism for which he is unprepared. As George ultimately falls further into darkness and despair, Francis loses himself painting a visual record of his lover's fragmentation.

Themes

Francis Bacon (1909 – 1992), Homosexuality, Art, Personal violence, Mental illness, Hedonism, Sexuality, Poverty, Class conflict, Death rituals, Literature, Made for TV