The turbulent and wandering life of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, as seen by Derek Jarman. The story of the painter unfolds through brawls, ambiguous relationships with ecclesiastical hierarchies, and the underworld, is reinterpreted through the lens of the alleged homosexual impulses that led him to inner turmoil, artistic creation, and murder. Filmed on a soundstage, the film definitively marks the originality of the English director's technique and style in crafting historical biographies. For the British cinema of the time, it represents “an enterprise of extraordinary audacity and depth” (John Russell Taylor). Introduced by Tommaso Mozzati and Tommaso Pasquali In collaboration with Gender Bender
