Dir. John Maybury, UK, 1998, 90 mins (Cert. 18)

A biography of British painter Francis Bacon focusing on his dysfunctional relationship with lover and small time crook George Dyer, starring Derek Jacobi, Daniel Craig and Tilda Swinton. The film draws heavily on the biography of Bacon, The Gilded Gutter Life of Francis Bacon by Daniel Farson. Love is the Devil is a dark and provocative exploration of artistic and emotional obsession.

Programmed in partnership with Oxford Pride Festival 2011.

'John Mathieson's brilliant cinematography saturates the film with Bacon's corrosive artistic vision. Although "Love Is the Devil" doesn't show any of Bacon's work, the look of the entire film resembles a Bacon painting.' Stephen Holden, The New York Times.