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  • 2002
  • Cinevista
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2002
  • Cinevista
  • 1 h 33 m

Summary Derek Jarman's 1986 film reveals the seventeenth-century painter's complex life?his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and flirtations with the underworld?while also delving into Jarman's major concerns: violence, history, homosexuality, and the relationship between film and painting. (Two Boots Pioneer Theater)

Directed By: Derek Jarman

Written By: Nicholas Ward Jackson, Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Derek Jarman

  • 2002
  • Cinevista
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2002
  • Cinevista
  • 1 h 33 m

Caravaggio

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 5 Critic Reviews
55
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 5 User Ratings
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Summary Derek Jarman's 1986 film reveals the seventeenth-century painter's complex life?his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and flirtations with the underworld?while also delving into Jarman's major concerns: violence, history, homosexuality, and the relationship between film and painting. (Two Boots Pioneer Theater)

Directed By: Derek Jarman

Written By: Nicholas Ward Jackson, Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Derek Jarman

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 5 Critic Reviews
55
60% Positive
3 Reviews
20% Mixed
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20% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 5 Critic Reviews
55
60% Positive
3 Reviews
20% Mixed
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20% Negative
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80
Much of the joy of the film is to be found in the way Jarman and his team recreate the look and color of the original paintings.
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75
It's often beautiful to watch, although it's more interested in visual style than philosophical depth.
By David Sterritt FULL REVIEW
70
Marrying a painterly aesthetic with a defiantly homosexual sensibility, this ironic biopic is probably the most accessible film of avant-garde British director Derek Jarman.
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50
In a sense, Caravaggio has less to do with its ostensible subject than with Jarman's own insistence on sensual, and largely homoerotic, expression, though there's a feeling of stifling enclosure to the images Jarman invents, of eros turned inward, toward private fantasy and longing, rather than outward to a world of real possibility.
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10
Less a movie than an act of vandalism.
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Production Company British Film Institute (BFI), Channel Four Television
Release Date Aug 7, 2002
Duration 1 h 33 m
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Website http://www.zeitgeistfilms.com/film.php?directoryname=caravaggio
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Awards

Berlin International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 4 Nominations
Istanbul Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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