Appeared at the 1992 Sundance Film Festival
British filmmaker Derek Jarman's most celebrated film meditates on life, art and character with a speculative, imaginative biography of Italian Renaissance painter Caravaggio (1573-1610). With his training as a painter, costume designer and set decorator, Jarman mounts a handsome yet starkly enclosed drama, starring Nigel Terry, Tilda Swinton and Sean Bean, that mixes quotations from the painter's most famous works with anachronistic sound effects and props. "Brooding, sensual! A bold, quirky Caravaggio in pagan and poetic glory" - Newsweek.