Reviews for Caravaggio

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6.2 / 10 1h 33min

A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld.

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Review by user597bxmtl958

An Artistic Portrait of an Artist by another Artist

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Review by ThunderousToucan

As beautiful as it is confusing...

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Review by OceanOtter

Caravaggio's life would be a natural subject for a great film. This is not it.

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Review by user9573x7mwufp

Uneven, but captures the earthiness of the artist

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Review by user767ht94hyxd

Jarman has to make do with a warehouse in Limehouse instead of the streets of Italy but surely couldn't have done a better job.

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Review by user453u1x5twl0

Arguably Jarman's most conventional and accessible film

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Review by ShadowShark

Absolutely exquisite art film with Sean Bean stealing it

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Review by user3998sxy8ugl

Not great history, but intense with flashes of brilliance

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Review by user954bb0gw5ss

Visually stunning but the screenplay's sudden jumps in time are disconcerting

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Review by user400w9gzq641

Now we discovered why Sean Bean us typecasted

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Review by user604gnrmubz4

Gay love is mute in a society that rejects it.

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Review by user563ja4qmpnn

A strange, sensual, and visually striking movie

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Review by user462uqeeujji

Beautiful to look at, but lacking a third dimension

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