"Exquisitely beautiful...a very personal work."
-Wolfram Schutte, ARTFORUM"Elegiac and lovely...a film of high artifie."
-Tony Rayns, AMERICAN FILM"CARAVAGGIO was the last perhaps the greatest, certainly the most controversial painter of the Italian Renaissance. Derek Jarman has made a movie that in its own bold and quirky way is worthy of its subject. The spectacular painterly camera work makes this film one of the most visually satisfying in recent years. The mood is much like that of Caravaggio's paintings brooding, sensual, pagan in the extreme."
-Edward Behr, NEWSWEEK
Derek Jarman, famous for such controversial films as Sebastiane, Jubilee and The Tempest, worked for more than seven years to realize his most ambitious project: a feature film based on the life and art of Caravaggio, the greatest Italian post Renaissance painter. Caravaggio (1571-1610) was the enfant terrible of Italian Art and his short life, marked by extremes of passion and moral and artistic radicalism, ended violently.