Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon

About Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon

In the 1960s, British painter Francis Bacon surprises a burglar and invites him to share his bed. The burglar, a working class man named George Dyer, accepts.

Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon is a 1998 drama film directed by John Maybury. Derek Jacobi appears as Francis Bacon, Daniel Craig as George Dyer, Tilda Swinton as Muriel Belcher, and Anne Lambton as Isabel Rawsthorne.

It runs 92 minutes and was released in September 1998. Written by John Maybury.

Shelv files it under new love, painter, gay artist, and artists' life. In the United States it streams on BFI Player Amazon Channel, Dekkoo, and Dekkoo Amazon Channel. It scores 6.1 out of 10 from 74 TMDB voters.

Caravaggio, Tom of Finland, and The Imitation Game make useful companions to Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon, all filed under biography, gay theme, and LGBT.