Caravaggio’s Shadow | L’Ombra di Caravaggio
Director | Michele Placido
Presented by STUDIO ITALIA
Michelangelo Merisi known as Caravaggio, was the embodiment of the iconoclastic artists.
His paintings are some of the most striking artworks of the Renaissance and his private life was equally as scandalous.
2022 | 118 minutes | Italy | Historical Drama | Italian with English subtitles
Cast Riccardo Scamarcio, Isavelle Huppert, Louis Garrel, Micaela Ramazzotti
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.
WINNER
Best Costumes, Best Hair - David di Donatello Awards
WINNER
Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, Best Costume Design - Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists
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.