The Set-Up
Francis Bacon was one of the famend painters of the twentieth century (to not be confused with the thinker of the identical title). Born in Eire on the flip of the century, his work grew to become well-known for its surrealist, summary, and sometimes fairly disturbing portrayals of spiritual figures, his shut circle of pals, and self-portraits.
He was a outstanding determine within the social lifetime of Sixties Soho in London (one of many cities’ most outstanding homosexual villages), alongside different massive creative and cultural figures of the time like photographer John Deakin, mannequin and nightclub proprietor Muriel Belcher, and author Daniel Farson (who wrote the biography that the film is predicated on).
Love Is The Satan focuses on the strained relationship that Bacon (Derek Jacobi) had within the latter portion of his profession with George Dyer (Daniel Craig), a avenue burglar that he took in a single evening and started an emotional and bodily relationship with. This affair overtakes his life for a interval, and turns into an enormous affect in his creative output.
Bacon tries to convey Dyer into his circle of pals (which incorporates Tilda Swinton as Muriel Belcher, Adrian Scarborough as Daniel Farson, and Hamish Bowles as fellow painter David Hockney), simply as he’s about to obtain a once-in-a-lifetime creative recognition in Paris. However as Dyer descends right into a spiral of alcohol and medicines, he drags Bacon alongside him till it takes the younger man’s life, taking a few of Bacon’s important creative inspiration with him.
