DVD : Love is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
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starring: Derek Jacobi, Daniel Craig, Tilda Swinton, Anne Lambton, Adrian Scarboroughdirected by: John Maybury
List Price: $29.99Amazon.com's Price: $26.99 You Save: $3.00 (10%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9786305847045
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 6305847045
Label: Strand Releasing
Manufacturer: Strand Releasing
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Strand Releasing
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 04, 2000
Running Time: 88 minutes
Sales Rank: 9369
Studio: Strand Releasing
Theatrical Release Date: October 07, 1998
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - I Almost Missed This Gem!
Last week I was going through my very old copies of Tatler, Harper's & Queen, and Vogue magazines (British issues) and found one with a review of this film. My old issues go back 15 years some of them. I read the review and saw the list of the actors names and said, "I've got to get this." After looking at it today, I am so glad I came across the review, because I would never have seen it otherwise.
I am not a Francis Bacon fan. His work, like Freud, leaves me uninspired. Jean ... Read More
Rating: - A Strange Love Affair
"Love is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon"
A Strange Love Affair
Amos Lassen
When Daniel Craig was cast as the new James Bond there was a lot of interest in the 1998 film, "Love is the Devil" (Strand Releasing) because of his frontal nude scene in the film. The film, itself, is a somewhat short look at the very strange love affair between Francis Bacon (Derek Jacobi), an artist and his model/lover George Dyer (Daniel Craig). Dyer was the model ... Read More
Rating: - GRITTY, SAD BUT THE BEST.
I KNEW NOTHING ABOUT FRANCIS BACON. SO THE MOVIE WAS EDUCATIONAL. SOMETIMES MORE THAN I REALLY WANTED. D. CRAIG WAS MAGNIFICENT. A MUST FOR ALL THOSE WHO MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN ART AND ARTIST'S HISTORY AND A DICKENISH ENGLAND.
Rating:  - Don't waste your time...
This is a ridulous and manic amalgam of nonsense that fails to satisfy either a lust for Daniel Craig (the hook that made me purchase it) or an interest in Francis Bacon. You will not learn about the artist and you won't see much of Daniel Craig (yes, he's naked in the tub, but is that alone worth the purchase price?). What's more, you won't likely be engaged as there is nothing closely resembling a story arc. Perhaps the film-makers forgot to take there ritalin during production?! Too frenetic, too ... Read More
Rating: - The devil you know or the devil you don't
John Maybury's study of the love affair between the great Irish painter Francis Bacon (Derek Jacobi) and George Dyer (Daniel Craig), the handsome their twenty years Bacon's younger, is more of the kind of film you can really admire than enjoy: it's a dark and very sour study of their sadistic-masochistic relationship between the years 1964, when Dyer tumbled through Bacon's skylight seeking to burgle his house, and 1971 when Dyer committed suicide in France from an overdose of pills. Maybury achieves ... Read More
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