Rating: NR
Genre:
Drama
Release Date: 06/24/2008
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD2
Run Time: 90 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Nudity, Not For Children, Adult Language
Distributor/Studio: Zeitgeist Films
Writer/director
Derek Jarman injects his patented iconoclasm in this biography of Renaissance artist
Michelangelo Merisa da Caravaggio. Nigel Terry plays the title role, whom (according to
Jarman) essentially told his own life story in his paintings.
Caravaggio travelled among thieves and prostitutes, many of whom were his models. He once killed a man, kept a deaf/mute child as a virtual slave, and squandered every penny he ever made. That we should care anything about so miserable and obscure a personality is a tribute to
Jarman's filmmaking savvy--and the number of elements from his own well-publicized life that he injects into the film.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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