Dawn Archibald, Dexter Fletcher, Garry Cooper

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R, 1 hr. 33 min.

Directed by: Derek Jarman

Release Date: August 29, 1986

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DVD Release Date: June 24, 2008

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  • November 17, 2007
    Sean Bean is f'ing hot in this weird-o movie.
  • March 15, 2007
    Not a film that i would recommend, although, if you appreciate paintings or Caravaggio, maybe it is something to look for.
  • October 14, 2009
    Being a straight man, this was WAY too homoerotic to watch for me. Never thought I'd ever watch Boromir from Lord of the Rings get all lovey-dovey with his male friends. Creepy wacked out movie.
  • September 15, 2009
    http://caravaggio.com/preview/home.html
  • September 9, 2009
    Recently watched this film again AFTER TWENTY YEARS and as shown by the amazing Amadeus, A Beautiful Mind and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, not all the biographical (or fashionable) details need to be tediously in place for it to be a great biopic.

    Rent (or download) this t...( read more)ale from Derek Jarman, starring a young Dexter Fletcher. Lighting, cinematography, acting, direction - all superb.
  • June 24, 2009
    Beautiful. Brilliant. Baffling...
  • June 10, 2008
    I wish I could watch every movie ever made but I sadly don't have the time. I'm not interested in this movie because I don't think I'll like it or don't know enough about it to think I might like it. I may still end up seeing it some day though.
  • February 20, 2008
    Historically unreliable, an unorthodox biography of my favourite painter. Imperfect but heady.
  • January 31, 2008
    Sean Bean was fantastic
  • November 25, 2007
    At one point a calculator makes an appearance in an Italian Cardinal's hand in the 17th Century. then a motorcycle, a typewriter and a truck?
    what was i smoking?
    it's Felliniesque in is decadence and hedonism. sits in high company with Gilliam's Brazil, Cronenberg's Dead Ringers,...( read more) and Greenaway's The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover as the epitome of '80s cinematic style. like those films, it suffers in it's style over substance; heavy in it's analogy and light in character development.

    avant-garde biopic of the artist is stunningly filmed. the paintings come to life in stunning interpretations of the original works.

    amazing cast in early roles (Tilda Swinton, Sean Bean and Robbie Coltrane).

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