Caravaggio (Jarman, 1986): Rio Cinema, 6.30pm
Through the Looking Glasses Presents: Derek Jarman's Caravaggio followed
by an in person Q&A with the actor Garry Cooper and soundtrack
composer Simon Fisher Turner.
Time Out review:
As Caravaggio (excellently played by Terry) lies dying at Porto Ercole
in 1610, his mind drifts back over a short life of extraordinary
passion: his relationship with his model, Ranuccio Thomasoni, who posed
perhaps as the muscular assassin in so many 'martyrdom' pictures, and
the other apex in the triangle, Lena, who is Ranuccio's mistress and
Caravaggio's model for the Magdalene and the dead Virgin. Jarman
proposes a murderous intensity as the mainspring for both Caravaggio's
love life and for his furious painting, and it certainly carries great
weight of conviction. For all the melodrama of the story, however, he
has elected a style of grave serenity, composed of looks and glances,
long silences in shaded rooms, sudden eruptions of blood. It all works
miraculously well, even the conscious use of anachronisms and the street
sounds of contemporary Italy.
Chris Peachment
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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