Writer/director Derek Jarman injects his patented iconoclasm in this biography of Renaissance artist Michelangelo Merisa da Caravaggio. Nigel Terry plays the title role, whom (according to Jarman) essentially told his own life story in his paintings. Caravaggio travelled among thieves and prostitutes, many of whom were his models. He once killed a man, kept a deaf/mute child as a virtual slave, and squandered every penny he ever made. That we should care anything about so miserable and obscure a personality is a tribute to Jarman's filmmaking savvy--and the number of elements from his own well-publicized life that he injects into the film.~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

GENRE: Drama, Biopic
MPAA RATING: No Rating
RUN TIME: 1h 33m
RELEASE DATE: August 29, 1986
STARRING: Nigel Terry, Nigel Davenport, Michael Gough, Dexter Fletcher, Sean Bean
DIRECTOR(S): Derek Jarman
PRODUCER(S): Sarah Radclyffe, Colin MacCabe
WRITER(S): Derek Jarman
STUDIO: Cinevista