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IFF - Caravaggio's Shadow at Roxy Cinema
IFF - Caravaggio's Shadow
FRI 8 NOV
Coming Soon to
Roxy Cinema
Presented by Studio Italia
Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio, was the embodiment of the iconoclastic artist. His paintings are some of the most striking artworks of the Renaissance and his private life was equally as scandalous. We follow a Vatican agent, ‘Ombra’(shadow), who is charged with investigating Caravaggio. He finds a tempestuous man using prostitutes and thieves as models for the Biblical figures in his work. You can imagine the reaction from the Vatican. Riccardo Scamarcio’s passionate performance is exhilarating as the lusty ruggedly handsome artist. Legendary French actress Isabelle Huppert plays Marquessa Colonna, a lover/patron. The filmmakers were granted access to the artists’ paintings housed in museums and filmed using candlelight to pay homage to the dramatic chiaroscuro of the masterpieces. It is an intoxicating portrayal that captures the artist’s spirit while illuminating his artwork. If you don’t know anything about Caravaggio, you will want to see more. - Paolo Rotondo
Awards / Premi
Winner / David di Donatello Awards, David of the Youth Award, Best Costumes, Best Hair,
Winner / Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, Best Costume Design
This visceral epic glows like one of the painter’s original masterpieces. - Meredith Taylor. FilmUforia
… a rollicking yarn, and will be all the more fascinating for those who knew little about Caravaggio going in. - Mark Demetrius. FilmInk.
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Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio, was the embodiment of the iconoclastic artist. His paintings are some of the most striking artworks of the Renaissance and his private life was equally as scandalous. We follow a Vatican agent, ‘Ombra’(shadow), who is charged with investigating Caravaggio. He finds a tempestuous man using prostitutes and thieves as models for the Biblical figures in his work. You can imagine the reaction from the Vatican. Riccardo Scamarcio’s passionate performance is exhilarating as the lusty ruggedly handsome artist. Legendary French actress Isabelle Huppert plays Marquessa Colonna, a lover/patron. The filmmakers were granted access to the artists’ paintings housed in museums and filmed using candlelight to pay homage to the dramatic chiaroscuro of the masterpieces. It is an intoxicating portrayal that captures the artist’s spirit while illuminating his artwork. If you don’t know anything about Caravaggio, you will want to see more. - Paolo Rotondo
Awards / Premi
Winner / David di Donatello Awards, David of the Youth Award, Best Costumes, Best Hair,
Winner / Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, Best Costume Design
This visceral epic glows like one of the painter’s original masterpieces. - Meredith Taylor. FilmUforia
… a rollicking yarn, and will be all the more fascinating for those who knew little about Caravaggio going in. - Mark Demetrius. FilmInk.
Presented by Studio Italia
Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio, was the embodiment of the iconoclastic artist. His paintings are some of the most striking artworks of the Renaissance and his private life was equally as scandalous. We follow a Vatican agent, ‘Ombra’(shadow), who is charged with investigating Caravaggio. He finds a tempestuous man using prostitutes and thieves as models for the Biblical figures in his work. You can imagine the reaction from the Vatican. Riccardo Scamarcio’s passionate performance is exhilarating as the lusty ruggedly handsome artist. Legendary French actress Isabelle Huppert plays Marquessa Colonna, a lover/patron. The filmmakers were granted access to the artists’ paintings housed in museums and filmed using candlelight to pay homage to the dramatic chiaroscuro of the masterpieces. It is an intoxicating portrayal that captures the artist’s spirit while illuminating his artwork. If you don’t know anything about Caravaggio, you will want to see more. - Paolo Rotondo
Awards / Premi
Winner / David di Donatello Awards, David of the Youth Award, Best Costumes, Best Hair,
Winner / Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, Best Costume Design
This visceral epic glows like one of the painter’s original masterpieces. - Meredith Taylor. FilmUforia
… a rollicking yarn, and will be all the more fascinating for those who knew little about Caravaggio going in. - Mark Demetrius. FilmInk.
Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio, was the embodiment of the iconoclastic artist. His paintings are some of the most striking artworks of the Renaissance and his private life was equally as scandalous. We follow a Vatican agent, ‘Ombra’(shadow), who is charged with investigating Caravaggio. He finds a tempestuous man using prostitutes and thieves as models for the Biblical figures in his work. You can imagine the reaction from the Vatican. Riccardo Scamarcio’s passionate performance is exhilarating as the lusty ruggedly handsome artist. Legendary French actress Isabelle Huppert plays Marquessa Colonna, a lover/patron. The filmmakers were granted access to the artists’ paintings housed in museums and filmed using candlelight to pay homage to the dramatic chiaroscuro of the masterpieces. It is an intoxicating portrayal that captures the artist’s spirit while illuminating his artwork. If you don’t know anything about Caravaggio, you will want to see more. - Paolo Rotondo
Awards / Premi
Winner / David di Donatello Awards, David of the Youth Award, Best Costumes, Best Hair,
Winner / Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, Best Costume Design
This visceral epic glows like one of the painter’s original masterpieces. - Meredith Taylor. FilmUforia
… a rollicking yarn, and will be all the more fascinating for those who knew little about Caravaggio going in. - Mark Demetrius. FilmInk.
IFF - Caravaggio's Shadow
FRI 8 NOV
Coming Soon to
Roxy Cinema
Presented by Studio Italia
Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio, was the embodiment of the iconoclastic artist. His paintings are some of the most striking artworks of the Renaissance and his private life was equally as scandalous. We follow a Vatican agent, ‘Ombra’(shadow), who is charged with investigating Caravaggio. He finds a tempestuous man using prostitutes and thieves as models for the Biblical figures in his work. You can imagine the reaction from the Vatican. Riccardo Scamarcio’s passionate performance is exhilarating as the lusty ruggedly handsome artist. Legendary French actress Isabelle Huppert plays Marquessa Colonna, a lover/patron. The filmmakers were granted access to the artists’ paintings housed in museums and filmed using candlelight to pay homage to the dramatic chiaroscuro of the masterpieces. It is an intoxicating portrayal that captures the artist’s spirit while illuminating his artwork. If you don’t know anything about Caravaggio, you will want to see more. - Paolo Rotondo
Awards / Premi
Winner / David di Donatello Awards, David of the Youth Award, Best Costumes, Best Hair,
Winner / Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, Best Costume Design
This visceral epic glows like one of the painter’s original masterpieces. - Meredith Taylor. FilmUforia
… a rollicking yarn, and will be all the more fascinating for those who knew little about Caravaggio going in. - Mark Demetrius. FilmInk.
