Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
John Maybury's dazzling debut feature is an extraordinarily powerful study of the passions that drove one of Britain's greatest and most controversial painters, Francis Bacon (Derek Jacobi).
The film charts the turbulent and complex relationship that developed between the flamboyant artist and George Dyer (Daniel Craig), the petty thief who became not only Bacon's lover but the model for some of his most intense and celebrated paintings.
Set in the bohemian world of 60's Soho, Love is the Devil perfectly captures the decadent underworld of artists, models, East End thugs and the infamous drinking den, The Colony Room, presided over by the hilariously foul-mouthed Muriel Belcher.
Starring:
Derek Jacobi, Daniel Craig, Anne Lambton, Karl Johnson, Annabel Brooks, Tilda Swinton
Director:
John Maybury
Producers:
Chiara Menage
Screenplay:
John Maybury
Executive Producers:
Takashi Asai, Ben Gibson, Patrice Haddad, Frances-Anne Solomon
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Credits summary:
±«Óãtv Films and the British Film Institute in assocation with the Arts Council of England, Premiere Heure and Uplink present a BFI production in association with Partners in Crime and with the assistance of State Films
Certificate:
18
Running time:
90 mins
Released
18 September 1998
Out on DVD
27 March 2006
Broadcast on
29 January 2017