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Aro Favourite Love is the Devil

 

UK 1998, 90 minutes
Dir. John Maybury
Rating: [R16]
Genres: Drama / LGBT

 

Aroview: Audacious biopic of great British painter Francis Bacon (he of the 'screaming pope' paintings), travels the raw-nerve edge of artistic inspiration and is itself a work of art.

Following Bacon's (Derek Jacobi) sado-masochistic affair with a smalltime crim in the late 1960s London, a rare aesthetic beauty is achieved without sacrificing narrative, and the period evocation is sublimely atmospheric. Numbering among the creepier hangers-on, Tilda Swinton and Anne Lambton are an added bonus.

NZ International Film Festival 1998

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