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

Love Is the Devil:
Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
Love Is the Devil:; Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
	DVD Cover
Directed by	John Maybury
Written by	John Maybury
Produced by	Takashi Asai & BBC
Starring	Derek Jacobi; Daniel Craig; Anne Lambton; Karl Johnson; Annabel Brooks; Adrian Scarborough; Tilda Swinton;
Music by	Ryuichi Sakamoto
Production; companies	BBC Films; British Film Institute; Arts Council of England; Premiere Heure; Uplink; Partners in Crime
Distributed by	Artificial Eye[1]
Release date	1998;
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon is a 1998 film produced by The British Film Institute and BBC Film. It was written and directed by John Maybury and stars Derek Jacobi, Daniel Craig and Tilda Swinton. A fictional biography of painter Francis Bacon (Jacobi), it concentrates on his strained relationship with George Dyer (Craig), a small-time thief. The film draws heavily on the authorised biography of Bacon, The Gilded Gutter Life of Francis Bacon by Daniel Farson, and is dedicated to him.

It won three awards at the Edinburgh International Film Festival: Best New British Feature (director John Maybury) and two Best British Performance awards, one for Jacobi and the other for future James Bond actor Craig. The film was also screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.[2] Craig's performance was well received by critics, acknowledging it as his breakthrough role.[3]

Cast

Derek Jacobi – Francis Bacon
Daniel Craig – George Dyer
Tilda Swinton – Muriel Belcher
Anne Lambton – Isabel Rawsthorne
Adrian Scarborough – Daniel Farson
Karl Johnson – John Deakin
Annabel Brooks – Henrietta Moraes
Richard Newbould – Blond Billy (as Richard Newbold)
Ariel de Ravenel – French Official
Tallulah – Ian Board
Andy Linden – Ken Bidwell
David Kennedy – Joe Furneval
Gary Hume – Volker Dix
Damian Dibben – Brighton Rent Boy
Antony Cotton – Brighton Rent Boy
Hamish Bowles – David Hockney
Martin Meister - Person in Brighton Pub

Release

Love Is the Devil was released theatrically by Artificial Eye on 18 September 1998 in the UK and grossed £259,421 ($0.4 million).[4] It was released in the United States on 7 October 1998 and grossed $354,004,[5] for a worldwide total in excess of $0.8 million.

The film was first broadcast on BBC Two on 26 March 2000.[6]

References

"Love is the Devil (1998)". BBFC. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
"Festival de Cannes: Love Is the Devil". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 3 October 2009.
"The 10 Best Daniel Craig Movie Performances".
"British biz at the box office". Variety. 14 December 1998. p. 72.
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon at Box Office Mojo
"BBC Programme Index". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 13 January 2023.

External links

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[1] "Love is the Devil (1998)". BBFC. Retrieved 26 February 2023.

[festival-cannes.com-2] "Festival de Cannes: Love Is the Devil". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 3 October 2009.

[3] "The 10 Best Daniel Craig Movie Performances".

[4] "British biz at the box office". Variety. 14 December 1998. p. 72.

[5] Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon at Box Office Mojo

[6] "BBC Programme Index". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 13 January 2023.

Francis Bacon (artist)
List of paintings
Crucifixions	Crucifixion (1933) Wound for a Crucifixion (1933) Fragment of a Crucifixion (1950)
Figures	Figure in a Landscape (1945) Painting 1946 (1946) Study for Crouching Nude (1952) Two Figures (1953) Three Studies from the Human Head (1953) Study for Portrait II (After the Life Mask of William Blake) (1955) Version No. 2 of Lying Figure with Hypodermic Syringe (1968) Study for a Bullfight, Number 2 (1969) Three Studies of the Male Back (1970) Blood on the Floor (painting) (1986)
Head series	Head I (1949) Head II (1949) Head III (1949) Head IV (1949) Head V (1949) Head VI (1949)
Popes	Study after Velázquez (1950) Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1953) Figure with Meat (1954) Untitled (Pope) (c. 1954) Study from Innocent X (1962) Study of Red Pope 1962. 2nd version 1971 (1971)
Triptychs	Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion (1944) Three Studies for a Crucifixion (1962) Three Figures in a Room (1964) Crucifixion (1965) Triptych Inspired by T.S. Eliot's Poem "Sweeney Agonistes" (1967) Two Figures Lying on a Bed with Attendants (1968) Triptych, 1976 (1976) Triptych Inspired by the Oresteia of Aeschylus (1981) Second Version of Triptych 1944 (1988)
Black Triptychs	Triptych–August 1972 (1972) Triptych, May–June 1973 (1973)
Male portraits	Three Studies for a Portrait of George Dyer (1964) Portrait of George Dyer Talking (1966) Three Studies for George Dyer (1967) Portrait of George Dyer and Lucian Freud (1967) Three Studies of Lucian Freud (1969) Portrait of Michel Leiris, 1976 (1976)
Female portraits	Three Studies for a Portrait of Henrietta Moraes (1963) Three Studies for a Portrait of Muriel Belcher (1966) Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne Standing in a Street in Soho (1967)
Self-portraits	Three Studies for a Self Portrait (1973) Self-portrait (1973) Three Studies for a Self-Portrait (1979) Three Studies for a Self Portrait (1985–86)
Summary articles	List of large triptychs by Francis Bacon Triptychs by Francis Bacon The Black Triptychs Influences on Francis Bacon
Related	Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation (1981 book) Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998 film)