Caravaggio’s Shadow - CINEMA ITALIANO at Victoria Theatre & Cinema Devonport
Caravaggio’s Shadow - CINEMA ITALIANO
Screening as part of the 9th Cinema Italiano
Saturday 11 May @ 3.30pm
Sunday 19 May @ 6pm
L’Ombra di Caravaggio (Caravaggio’s Shadow)
Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio, was the embodiment of the iconoclastic artist. His paintings are some of the most striking artworks of the Renaissance and his private life was equally as scandalous. We follow a Vatican agent, ‘Ombra’ (shadow), who is charged with investigating Caravaggio. He finds a tempestuous man using prostitutes and thieves as models for the Biblical figures in his work. You can imagine the reaction from the Vatican. Riccardo Scamarcio’s passionate performance is exhilarating as the lusty ruggedly handsome artist. Legendary French actress Isabelle Huppert plays Marquessa Colonna, a lover/patron. The filmmakers were granted access to the artists’ paintings housed in museums and filmed using candlelight to pay homage to the dramatic chiaroscuro of the masterpieces. It is an intoxicating portrayal that captures the artist’s spirit while illuminating his artwork. If you don’t know anything about Caravaggio, you will want to see more.
Directed by Michele Placido
Starring Riccardo Scamarcio, Isabelle Huppert, Louis Garrel, Micaela Ramazzotti
Screening in Italian and French with English subtitles.
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Saturday 11 May @ 3.30pm
Sunday 19 May @ 6pm
L’Ombra di Caravaggio (Caravaggio’s Shadow)
Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio, was the embodiment of the iconoclastic artist. His paintings are some of the most striking artworks of the Renaissance and his private life was equally as scandalous. We follow a Vatican agent, ‘Ombra’ (shadow), who is charged with investigating Caravaggio. He finds a tempestuous man using prostitutes and thieves as models for the Biblical figures in his work. You can imagine the reaction from the Vatican. Riccardo Scamarcio’s passionate performance is exhilarating as the lusty ruggedly handsome artist. Legendary French actress Isabelle Huppert plays Marquessa Colonna, a lover/patron. The filmmakers were granted access to the artists’ paintings housed in museums and filmed using candlelight to pay homage to the dramatic chiaroscuro of the masterpieces. It is an intoxicating portrayal that captures the artist’s spirit while illuminating his artwork. If you don’t know anything about Caravaggio, you will want to see more.
Directed by Michele Placido
Starring Riccardo Scamarcio, Isabelle Huppert, Louis Garrel, Micaela Ramazzotti
Screening in Italian and French with English subtitles.
Screening as part of the 9th Cinema Italiano
Saturday 11 May @ 3.30pm
Sunday 19 May @ 6pm
L’Ombra di Caravaggio (Caravaggio’s Shadow)
Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio, was the embodiment of the iconoclastic artist. His paintings are some of the most striking artworks of the Renaissance and his private life was equally as scandalous. We follow a Vatican agent, ‘Ombra’ (shadow), who is charged with investigating Caravaggio. He finds a tempestuous man using prostitutes and thieves as models for the Biblical figures in his work. You can imagine the reaction from the Vatican. Riccardo Scamarcio’s passionate performance is exhilarating as the lusty ruggedly handsome artist. Legendary French actress Isabelle Huppert plays Marquessa Colonna, a lover/patron. The filmmakers were granted access to the artists’ paintings housed in museums and filmed using candlelight to pay homage to the dramatic chiaroscuro of the masterpieces. It is an intoxicating portrayal that captures the artist’s spirit while illuminating his artwork. If you don’t know anything about Caravaggio, you will want to see more.
Directed by Michele Placido
Starring Riccardo Scamarcio, Isabelle Huppert, Louis Garrel, Micaela Ramazzotti
Screening in Italian and French with English subtitles.
Saturday 11 May @ 3.30pm
Sunday 19 May @ 6pm
L’Ombra di Caravaggio (Caravaggio’s Shadow)
Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio, was the embodiment of the iconoclastic artist. His paintings are some of the most striking artworks of the Renaissance and his private life was equally as scandalous. We follow a Vatican agent, ‘Ombra’ (shadow), who is charged with investigating Caravaggio. He finds a tempestuous man using prostitutes and thieves as models for the Biblical figures in his work. You can imagine the reaction from the Vatican. Riccardo Scamarcio’s passionate performance is exhilarating as the lusty ruggedly handsome artist. Legendary French actress Isabelle Huppert plays Marquessa Colonna, a lover/patron. The filmmakers were granted access to the artists’ paintings housed in museums and filmed using candlelight to pay homage to the dramatic chiaroscuro of the masterpieces. It is an intoxicating portrayal that captures the artist’s spirit while illuminating his artwork. If you don’t know anything about Caravaggio, you will want to see more.
Directed by Michele Placido
Starring Riccardo Scamarcio, Isabelle Huppert, Louis Garrel, Micaela Ramazzotti
Screening in Italian and French with English subtitles.
Caravaggio’s Shadow - CINEMA ITALIANO
Screening as part of the 9th Cinema Italiano
Saturday 11 May @ 3.30pm
Sunday 19 May @ 6pm
L’Ombra di Caravaggio (Caravaggio’s Shadow)
Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio, was the embodiment of the iconoclastic artist. His paintings are some of the most striking artworks of the Renaissance and his private life was equally as scandalous. We follow a Vatican agent, ‘Ombra’ (shadow), who is charged with investigating Caravaggio. He finds a tempestuous man using prostitutes and thieves as models for the Biblical figures in his work. You can imagine the reaction from the Vatican. Riccardo Scamarcio’s passionate performance is exhilarating as the lusty ruggedly handsome artist. Legendary French actress Isabelle Huppert plays Marquessa Colonna, a lover/patron. The filmmakers were granted access to the artists’ paintings housed in museums and filmed using candlelight to pay homage to the dramatic chiaroscuro of the masterpieces. It is an intoxicating portrayal that captures the artist’s spirit while illuminating his artwork. If you don’t know anything about Caravaggio, you will want to see more.
Directed by Michele Placido
Starring Riccardo Scamarcio, Isabelle Huppert, Louis Garrel, Micaela Ramazzotti
Screening in Italian and French with English subtitles.