Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998)

Daniel Craig, Tilda Swinton, Derek Jacobi, Adrian Scarborough

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 thei