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Caravaggio


     
  Caravaggio Review
Tookey's Rating
5 /10
 
Average Rating
6.38 /10
 
Starring
Nigel Terry , Sean Bean, Garry Cooper
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Directed by: Derek Jarman
Written by: Derek Jarman

 
 
 
Released: 1986
   
Genre: DRAMA
BIOPIC
   
Origin: GB
   
Colour: C
   
Length: 89
 
 


 
Life and loves of an Italian painter (Nigel Terry).
Reviewed by Chris Tookey

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Derek Jarman’s most pictorially striking film betrays an almost complete lack of interest in the real Caravaggio, or his period, or the things that made him a fine artist. Jarman, as usual, was interested only in his sex-life (totally fictitious, by the way).


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