Caravaggio

Dir. Derek Jarman

UK 1986 | Colour | 93 mins | Cert 15

Cast: Nigel Terry, Sean Bean, Garry Cooper

Derek Jarman struggled for seven years to bring his portrait of the seventeenth-century Italian artist Michelangelo da Caravaggio to the screen. The result was well worth the wait, and was greeted with critical acclaim. The film centres on an imagined love-triangle between Caravaggio, his friend and model Ranuccio, and Ranuccio's low-life partner Lena.

Available on: DVD

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