Caravaggio

Ulysse Dutoit

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by Leo Bersani

British Film Institute

Due/Published August 1999, 96 pages, paper

ISBN 0851707246

Caravaggio is a treatment of many ofDerek Jarman's major concerns: violence, history, homosexuality, and the relation between film and painting. The authors contend that filmmaking involves a coercive power which Jarman may have found deeply seductive. But in Caravaggio this power is renounced, and the result is Jarman's most profound, unsettling, and astonishing reflection on sexuality and identity.

Series: BFI Modern Classics