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

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

Action,Biography,Drama,Romance

1998
1h 37m
6.5

Tilda Swinton,Derek Jacobi,Daniel Craig,Mark Umbers

In the 1960s, British painter Francis Bacon (1909-1992) surprises a burglar and invites him to share his bed. The burglar, a working class man named George Dyer, thirty years younger than Bacon, accepts. Bacon finds Dyer's amorality and innocence attractive, introducing him to his Soho pals. In their sex life, Dyer dominates, Bacon is the masochist. Dyer's bouts with depression, his drinking, pill popping, and his Satanic nightmares strain the relationship, as does his pain with Bacon's casual infidelities. Bacon paints, talks with wit, and, as Dyer spins out of control, begins to find him tiresome. Could Bacon care less?—