Caravaggio

feature film, biographical drama, UK, 1986

DIRECTED BY: Derek Jarman

Caravaggio

CAST:
Nigel Terry (Caravaggio),
Sean Bean (Ranuccio),
Garry Cooper (Davide),
Dexter Fletcher (mladi Caravaggio),
Spencer Leigh (Jerusaleme),
Tilda Swinton (Lena)

SCRIPT:
Derek Jarman

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Gabriel Beristain

MUSIC:
Simon Fisher-Turner

EDITING:
George Akers

Synopsis:
In his distinctive way, scriptwriter and director Derek Jarman overcomes traditional and conservative elements in the biography of the Renaissance artist Michelangelo Meris da Caravaggio. Nigel Terry plays the leading role, retelling the artist’s story through painting. He travels with thieves and prostitutes, many of whom model for his paintings. He kills a man, keeps a deaf and dumb child as a slave, and extravagantly spends every penny he earns…

color, 93'

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