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Caravaggio

His passion came with a price.

6.2 / 10

93 minutes

1986-08-29

English

GB

Actors :

Nigel Terry, Sean Bean, Garry Cooper, Dexter Fletcher, Spencer Leigh, Tilda Swinton, Nigel Davenport, Robbie Coltrane, Michael Gough, Noam Almaz, Dawn Archibald, Jack Birkett, Una Brandon-Jones, Imogen Claire, Sadie Corre

Description

A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld.

Reviews

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

8/21/2024, 5:43:33 PM

I knew there had to be a reason why anyone ever cared about Sean Bean. A more wooden actor I think I've never seen, but here his conniving "Ranuccio" is sexy and provocative and put together with Nigel Terry's convincing performance as the eponymous artist and Dexter Fletcher's efforts as the younger, manipulative, Caravaggio, this is a no-holes barred/bared look at debauchery and hedonism in a pa...