Caravaggio

“His passion came with a price.”

Caravaggio (Nigel Terry) is the most celebrated painter in seventeenth-century Rome, and his canvases scandalize the Church as much as they impress it. He keeps company with thieves and hustlers, among them Ranuccio (Sean Bean), and uses the street's faces as his models. Derek Jarman's film moves through a painter's studio, the cloth hung and the models posed and still.