Caravaggio's Shadow (2022)
31K Brenno Placido Carlo Giuseppe Gabardini Duccio Camerini Fidel Signorile Gianfranco Gallo Gianluca Gobbi Guia Jelo Isabelle Huppert Lolita Chammah Lorenzo Lavia Louis Garrel Maurizio Donadoni Micaela Ramazzotti Michelangelo Placido Michele Placido Moni Ovadia Riccardo Scamarcio Sandro Petraglia Sebastiano Lo Monaco Tedua Vinicio Marchioni 272022 6.4 Italian Italy Michele Placido
Caravaggio's Shadow (2022). 2h
“The hypocrisy of key Church figures who condemn the sensuality of the painter, all the while competing to hoard his art seems bizarre, the figure of Caravaggio becomes an attractive and sympathetic revolutionary hero in a secular era. While his animalistic rutting grosses me out he gets the best lines. The investigator who travels around interviewing witnesses is so intent on his task he becomes one-dimensional. But the film suffers from such poor narrative construction that it becomes tedious and repetitive, gradually dulling my interest. If the powerful originality of the artistu0026#39;s output were shown more clearly I would have found it more enjoyable.”
