L'ombra di Caravaggio
The Catholic Church secretly investigates Caravaggio as the Pope weighs whether to grant him clemency for killing a rival.
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"L'Ombra di Caravaggio promises a fiery portrait of a tortured genius and instead delivers two hours of overwrought mood lighting, erratic time jumps, and enough theatrical whispering to power an entire semester at drama school. The film adopts the now-inescapable "non-linear" structure, which in this case means the plot zigzags like a drunk fencing master. Sure they toss in a few time markers, but stylistically it's all one long, indistinguishable swirl of tormented men in cloaks. Our anti-hero Caravaggio is painted (pardon the pun) as your typical Renaissance bad boy: re..."
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Riccardo Scamarcio said about Caravaggio's character: "I immediately thought that [Caravaggio] was like Elvis Presley. My reference was Elvis. A small-town boy with great energy, passion, talent and rigor towards art. At that time, painting was the mainstream, there was nothing else, there was no photography, there was no radio, television or cinema. Paintings were so powerful because they spoke directly to the unconscious. And this man was the first to represent sacred images in a completely different way."
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The Catholic Church secretly investigates Caravaggio as the Pope weighs whether to grant him clemency for killing a rival.