Caravaggio (Special Edition)
by Derek Jarman
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Actor: Michael Gough, Nigel Terry, Sean Bean, Spencer Leigh, Tilda SwintonDirector: Derek Jarman
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-06-24
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Zeitgeist Films
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DVD Review: Great visuals, pointless narrative
Summary: 2 Stars
I guess the deliberately jarring and anachronistic visuals were there to demonstrate that Caravaggio was of no era but an artist for all time. No argument from me; the John the Baptist painting featured strongly is located here in KC, and is one of the jewels of our collection. An astounding and amazing painting, it just destroys everything else in the room. It is a work of stupendous genius and power.
Unfortunately, the version of it visible in the studio in this film is a tame and shallow copy. Just like the film, it is trying to be something it is not. The endless silly images undercut the seriousness of the story. At one point, as Tilda Swinton opens a large rectangular package. I said to my wife, "Maybe it's a computer."
When I read things like "a meditation on sex, art, power....blahblah" I know I'm in for it. I know that a "meditation" in film never says anything, it just tosses images around as if showing people lusting and misbehaving tells us something. But this film tells us nothing. Caravaggio was a jerk, who mistreated those who cared for him and chased those who didn't. The people around him were users and cheats and liars and deceivers. OK, yeah, well, that's not actually news. Nor is it interesting.
So, while there is lots of beauty, with languid and lush images filling the screen, this was one dull and irritating film. A self-indulgent director makes a movie about a self-indulgent painter, and the results are not worth the effort.
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