Movie Description:
A searching portrait of the English painter Francis Bacon (Jacobi) at the height of his fame in the 1960`s is one of the nastiest and most truthfulportraits of the artist-as-monster ever filmed. Its story of the colossally self-absorbed paiter and his self- destructive younger lover, George Dyer(Craig), begins when Bacon awakens in his studio one night todiscover a burglar on a the premises. Sizing up thethief as an appetizing piece of roughtrade, Bacon makes a proposition: if therobber sheds his clothes and comes to bed with him, he promises, he can anything he wants...in presuming to takeyou inside the mind and heart of a majorartist, confronting thedemonic aspect of the human condition, Love is the Devil, goes as far and as deep as anymovie has dared.
