Mark Kermode reviews Love is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998) | BFI Player

Mark Kermode on John Maybury's electrifying portrait of the artist Francis Bacon. Watch Love is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon on BFI Player (UK only): player.bfi.org.uk/subscriptio...
Subscribe: bit.ly/subscribetotheBFI
Watch more on BFI Player: player.bfi.org.uk/
Like us on Facebook: / britishfilminstitute
Follow us on Instagram: / britishfilminstitute
Follow us on Twitter: / bfi

[@IrvoDominguez]

This film is a total statement: not only visually but emotionally, is cruel but intimate, is grotesque but sometimes sympathetic, is a portrait in living and painful flesh.

[@totosangsaranghaeyo7706]

Fun, sad and romantic movie If you love someone, hurry up and tell them. before it's too late "Francis Bacon & George Dyer" love like poison You robbed my heart And you leave me forever "007 my love."
😘"..

[@NavinKumar-ie5ye]

Strange actor face🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐

[@yanuszg]

Such a waste of making film about Bacon without showing his single painting . i would spank Bacon ass for refusing to use his work ! What damn hypocrite! It is like making film about light for a blind people. On the other I wonder how Bertolucci convinced Bacon to show his work in “Last tango …” This film could have been one of the best film in the history of making films about artist ! Darek Jacobi physical resembles is crazy , Daniel Craig as Dryer excellent Sakamoto music ,DP all this had potential ! It is a pity that director did not announced on the beginning of film that Bacon refused to film his work - probably he was drunk on 1K Champaign !

[@gorehound3414]

Bacon didn’t want there work it’s not a fault of the film which is marvellous. As someone who knows his life from great research I found it interesting and knew what paintings where being made throughout the narrative

[@nickpemberton543]

It wasn't Francis Bacon himself who refused the use of his paintings, he died 6 years before the film was made, I think it was his estate.