Love
Is
The
Devil 

(1998)

 Directed by
 John Maybury

Writing credits
 John Maybury

 

Plot summary:   In the 1960s, British painter Francis Bacon (1909-1992) surprises a burglar and invites him to share his bed. The burglar, a working class man named George Dyer, 30 years Bacon's junior, accepts. Bacon finds Dyer's amorality and innocence attractive, introducing him to his Soho pals. In their sex life, Dyer dominates, Bacon is the masochist. Dyer's bouts with depression, his drinking and pill popping, and his satanic nightmares strain the relationship, as does his pain with Bacon's casual infidelities. Bacon paints, talks with wit, and, as Dyer spins out of control, begins to find him tiresome. Could Bacon care less?...   from IMDB

with...
Derek Jacobi: Francis Bacon

Daniel Craig:  George Dyer

Tilda Swinton:  Muriel Belcher

Anne Lambton:  Isabel Rawthorne

Adrian Scarborough:  Daniel Farson

Karl Johnson:  John Deakin

Annabel Brooks:  Henrietta Moraes

Richard Newbould:  Blond Billy

Ariel de Ravenel:  French Official

Tallulah:  Ian Board

Andy Linden:  Ken Bidwell

David Kennedy:  Joe Furneval

Francis Bacon Derek Jacobi 


Bacon's studio

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