Caravaggio

Cinevista | Release Date: August 7, 2002

7.3	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 6 Ratings

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FrederickD.Jun 24, 2006

Critics vilified this film. They were wrong. They are so besotted with western linear film plot, they fail to recognize the brilliance of this non-linear portrait of a tormented, but seminal Italian artist as a young man. The film captures Critics vilified this film. They were wrong. They are so besotted with western linear film plot, they fail to recognize the brilliance of this non-linear portrait of a tormented, but seminal Italian artist as a young man. The film captures his twisted genius, his brutalilty, his passion, his bisexuality, and his transendent vision, which elevated the common poor street beggar to the level of saint and angel. The film captures Caravaggio's genius and psychopathology in equal measure. Though the film takes liberties with time and place, it can hardly being said to be twisting the truth, since so little is known for certain about Caravaggio's life. (See Francine Prose's excellent portrait of Caravaggio in her recet biography -Atlas/HarperCollins books). Jarman imagines well the nightmarish vision of beauty, truth, love, passion and death that drove Caravvaggio's life on the street and on the canvas. The film is similar in approach to Peter Watkins' docudrama about the painter, Edvard Munch, which was also vilified by critics. More recently it was vindicated: the Harvard Film Archive now says the Munch film is "...considered by many to be the most successful portrayal of the artistic process ever depicted on film." I predict a similar future view will emerge of Derek Jarman's film on Caravaggio..… Expand

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lasttimeisawFeb 17, 2012

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JLuis_001Sep 1, 2022

The parts that I found captivating are not few, and I'm not the kind of viewer who shies away from films that have a tendency to seem more incoherent than they should, but I think there are many moments in this film where the director leavesThe parts that I found captivating are not few, and I'm not the kind of viewer who shies away from films that have a tendency to seem more incoherent than they should, but I think there are many moments in this film where the director leaves completely up in the air what he was trying to do. And that, in one way or another, affects the end result.… Expand

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