Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
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Directed by John Maybury | 91 mins | 1998
Long before Daniel Craig pursued a fraught gay romance in "Queer" (2024), there was "Love is the Devil": in this brutal but scintillating flashback to 1960s London, Craig portrays George Dyer, the petty criminal from the rough-and-tumble East End who became Francis Bacon’s lover and the model for a number of his greatest works. John Maybury’s debut feature is a fittingly grotesque portrait of one of the most storied, and tragic, artist-muse relationships.
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