LOVE IS THE DEVIL

Starring Derek Jacobi as Francis Bacon, LOVE IS THE DEVIL is the dazzling and audacious feature debut from one of Britain’s most exciting young talents, John Maybury. It opens in 1971 at the Grand Palais in Paris, where Bacon is welcomed as 'the greatest living painter’. George Dyer, Bacon’s model and lover, recalls the fateful day in 1964 when he met the artist whilst attempting to burgle his house. Capturing the bohemian life of ‘60’s Soho, an underworld of artist’s models, East End thugs and the infamous drinking den, the Colony Room, presided over by the hilariously foul-mouthed Muriel Belcher (Tilda Swinton), John Maybury’s extraordinary study of Bacon and his tumultuous relationship with Dyer is a powerful testament to one of the twentieth century’s greatest and most controversial artists..

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