Caravaggio – Dirty Pirate
23 September, 2022
The debut performance of Tilda Swinton sees her thrown into the role of a prostitute who is at the whims of artists. Discovering something of a muse in her, Derek Jarman starts to affirm himself, in his 1986 “Caravaggio”, as the damned poet of genial lumpenproletarians.
Title
Caravaggio
Director/ Screenwriter
Derek Jarman
Actors
Nigel Terry, Tilda Swinton
Country
UK
Year
1986
Film critic and journalist; writes regularly for Dilema Veche and Scena9. He studied film theory in Grenoble, Paris, Dublin.
