Caravaggio: The Soul and the Blood

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Caravaggio: The Soul and the Blood (2018)

An exciting and unsettling cinematic journey through the life, work and torments of Caravaggio. Light and shadow, contrasts and contradictions, genius and intemperance distinguish his existe... Read allAn exciting and unsettling cinematic journey through the life, work and torments of Caravaggio. Light and shadow, contrasts and contradictions, genius and intemperance distinguish his existence and his art. A narrative and visual excursus, filmed in : Milan, Florence, Rome, Naple... Read allAn exciting and unsettling cinematic journey through the life, work and torments of Caravaggio. Light and shadow, contrasts and contradictions, genius and intemperance distinguish his existence and his art. A narrative and visual excursus, filmed in : Milan, Florence, Rome, Naples and Malta.

Director
- Jesus Garces Lambert
Writers
- Laura Allievi
- Cosetta Lagani
Stars

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6.6/10

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Director
- Jesus Garces Lambert
Writers
- Laura Allievi
- Cosetta Lagani
Stars

8User reviews

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 win total

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6chiaragiacobelli

Not a real documentary, not a biography and not a movie

I watched this movie/documentary at the cinema and I didn't like it much. Maybe my expectations were too high, but I found it uncomplete, too slow and not balanced. The idea to mix a modern part with an historical/artistic one was not good in my opinion: the actor alone in the room had nothing in common with Caravaggio and it seemed to me a bit unrelated to the rest of the movie. I read the entire biography of the painter and I discovered many more things about his life and his works. The documentary doesn't really say anything new and the images are stressfully repeated. Not a real documentary, not a biography and not a movie, it is an experiment not successful at all.

1queenslandwriting

Glib, noisy & a bit silly

What a huge disappointment this film is. The score is a collision of digital thunderclaps, the cinematography absurd close-ups which give very little sense of the paintings, the narration often relying on an over- use of 'probably' or 'may have' about the painter's life, and the very silly blue-eyed modern day actor representing the anguished artist by wrapping his own head in cellophane or blowing underwater bubbles or smearing himself with tar. It was pretentious a lot of the time, with no movement of the passing minutes away from loud digital horror noises and the hapless experts being overwhelmed and trivialised.

3pragnes

Pretentious and boring, not for children!

Actually I couldn't watch this movie full length as it is so pretentious, it wants to be artistic, but it is only confusing and boring. It is rated "bambini accompagnati" - children with adult presence but actually already the first sequence is not for children at all as it shows a suicide. Anyway I think children would not understand and enjoy this movie.

9pik923

Strange puzzling gorgeous

An amazing concept in documentary film making, presenting the life the words the art of this tormented and ingenious artist. I do not want to write too much nor give anything away as the film pays tribute to a Renaissance artist in a most unusual and stunning manner. The film is as creative a story narrative and use of imagery as was the artist. This is not a slide show of paintings but a living moving dynamic homage to a great painter. Well worth it for film makers to see how creative a documentary film can be constructed.

1hello-90621

Worst documentary ever

Caravaggio is really a great artist. There would be no needs to create fancy storyline, invented voiceovers, forced dramatic images. The documentary is there. The artist is there. Why do we need all this mess? Worst direction ever. Caravaggio, version Jersey Shore.