`Love Is the Devil': Portrait of the Artist as a Brute; The Dank Tale of a Painter's Private Squalor From: The Washington Post | Date: November 13, 1998| Author: Stephen Hunter | Copyright 1998 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

Love, a poet once said, is a dog from Hell. But in a new film, that force of exquisite human bondage gets a promotion. "Love," the movie's title maintains, "Is the Devil."

The movie is a highly stylized re-creation of the ferocious and ultimately fatal relationship between the late great British painter Francis Bacon and his working-class lover George Dyer, set in 1971 at the height of the former's success and the depth of the latter's pain. It has the sick fascination of a docum...

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