Caravaggio: The Search
Caravaggio: The Search
导演: Maureen Murphy
编剧: Michael C. Merisi/Maureen Murphy
主演: Gladys Florence/马克西米连·劳/弗兰克·勒伯夫/多米齐安诺·阿克安格尼/Martin Kast/Sara Sometti/Siso Kamburov
类型: 剧情/喜剧
制片国家/地区: 美国
语言: 荷兰语/法语/意大利语/英语
上映日期: 2009-11-30
IMDb链接: tt0825334
剧情简介
Caravaggio (1986) is a British film directed by Derek Jarman. The film is a fictionalized re-telling of the life of Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio.
Jarman's film is involved with the love triangle of Caravaggio (Nigel Terry), Lena (Tilda Swinton) and Ranuccio (Sean Bean) and dwells upon Caravaggio's use of street people, drunks and prostitutes as models for his intense, usually religious paintings (see the article on the painter for examples). As with Caravaggio's use of contemporary dress for his Biblical figures, Jarman depicts his Caravaggio in a bar lit with electric lights or another character using an electronic calculator.
The film is notable for its texture and attention to detail, the intense performances and the idiosyncratic humor. By presenting Caravaggio as one of the founders of the chiaroscuro technique, it helped give expression to the legend that was beginning to form around him. Jarman's Caravaggio also suggests that his legend ultimately eclipsed his enormous talent.
Caravaggio was the first time that Jarman worked with Tilda Swinton and was her first film role. The film also features Robbie Coltrane, Dexter Fletcher, Spencer Leigh, Michael Gough and Nigel Davenport. The cook Jennifer Paterson was an extra. The production designer was Christopher Hobbs who was also responsible for the copies of Caravaggio paintings seen in the film.