Marie Gicquel 12:20 p.m., December 28, 2022
Caravaggio, by Italian director Michele Placido, is released in theaters this Wednesday.
A film about the Renaissance painter against whom the Church decides to investigate.
Italian actor Riccardo Scamarcio shares the bill with two stars of French cinema: Louis Garrel and Isabelle Huppert.
An aesthetic success, inspired by the world of Caravaggio.
If you don't know what to see in theaters during the holidays, this Wednesday is releasing a biopic on Le Caravaggio.
With its eponymous title, the film by Italian Michele Placido imagined as an investigation, a fascinating portrait of one of the most outstanding painters of the Renaissance.
Mystical, magnetic, daring, polemic, disturbing and endlessly inspired by the brutality of the street.
Franco-Italian cast
On these monumental canvases,
The Life of Jesus
, but without the starry sky and the angels.
Revolutionary for the time, blasphemous for the Church which decides to investigate this painter adored by the great Italian families on the run after the murder of a Nobleman.
The pope's inquisitor, the icy Louis Garrel, is therefore trying to find out who the man behind the artist is.
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Caravaggio, played with accuracy by the Italian star Riccardo Scamarcio, is a man of the street, a brawler, who wants to paint the real, sometimes cruel, between two orgies.
Here he is in his studio, accomplishing his masterpiece,
The Death of the Virgin
, which is none other than the corpse of a prostitute.
The film, served by a Franco-Italian cast including Isabelle Huppert as the master's protective marquise, borrows for its photography the same chiaroscuro characteristic of Caravaggio.
Aesthetically successful despite some lengths.