Caravaggio's Shadow

Caravaggio's Shadow image - a film by Michele Placido
Caravaggio's Shadow image - a film by Michele Placido
Caravaggio's Shadow image - a film by Michele Placido
Caravaggio's Shadow image - a film by Michele Placido
Caravaggio's Shadow image - a film by Michele Placido
Caravaggio's Shadow image - a film by Michele Placido
Caravaggio's Shadow image - a film by Michele Placido
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Caravaggio's Shadow poster - a film by Michele Placido
Masterful. Placido’s film is like a Caravaggio canvas: each scene is a violent contrast between light and shade, often taking our breath away. Visceral, extreme, beautiful, disturbing, genial, blasphemous, sacred, moving: these are just some of the words commonly used to describe Caravaggio’s art. Viewers will find the same qualities here.
Potent. A rollicking yarn, and will be all the more fascinating for those who knew little about Caravaggio going in. Definitely recommended.
Wow! Garrel is mesmerising and Scamarcio brilliant. The moment every viewer will be waiting for, when the artist meets his shadow, is spellbinding. This engrossing movie is historical and timely. With artists of all kinds caught in today’s cancel culture, it’s a 17th-century story that remains in the frame.
Director: Michele Placido
Cast: Riccardo Scamarcio, Isabelle Huppert, Louis Garrel, Micaela Ramazzotti, Vinicio Marchioni
Duration: 118mins
Country of Origin: Italy
MA15+
Strong sex, nudity and coarse language
Masterful. Placido’s film is like a Caravaggio canvas: each scene is a violent contrast between light and shade, often taking our breath away. Visceral, extreme, beautiful, disturbing, genial, blasphemous, sacred, moving: these are just some of the words commonly used to describe Caravaggio’s art. Viewers will find the same qualities here.
Potent. A rollicking yarn, and will be all the more fascinating for those who knew little about Caravaggio going in. Definitely recommended.
Wow! Garrel is mesmerising and Scamarcio brilliant. The moment every viewer will be waiting for, when the artist meets his shadow, is spellbinding. This engrossing movie is historical and timely. With artists of all kinds caught in today’s cancel culture, it’s a 17th-century story that remains in the frame.

OFFICIAL SELECTION - 2022 ROME FILM FESTIVAL
WINNER (x4!) - 2023 NASTRO D'ARGENTO AWARDS - Best Cinematography, Set Design, Costumes & Special Nastro (Michele Placido)
OFFICIAL SELECTION - 2023 ST ALI ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL (Special Presentation)

Riccardo Scamarcio, Isabelle Huppert and Louis Garrel star in writer/director Michele Placido's engrossing new historical drama depicting the struggles of the notorious Renaissance painter as he's investigated by the Vatican.

Italy 1610. Michelangelo Merisi (Scamarcio), better known as Caravaggio, ignores Catholic Church rulings that dictate how religious subjects are to be represented. Having been informed that he transfigures prostitutes, thieves and vagabonds into saints and Madonnas in his work, Pope Paul V orders the Vatican secret service to investigate, to decide whether to grant the clemency for which Caravaggio has petitioned since being sentenced to death for the murder of a rival in love.

The investigator (Garrel) – known as The Shadow - begins the inquiry that will lead him to discover the conflicting vices and virtues of the artist whose life – or death – lies in his hands.

Caravaggio's Shadow poster - a film by Michele Placido

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