Caravaggio 1986

Caravaggio 1986

Caravaggio 1986
1h 33min | Biography, Drama, History | 29 August 1986 (USA)

Storyline:

Fictionalized biopic of famed 17th century Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi de Caravaggio. As a young man, he gained the support of Cardinal Del Monte and Caravaggio proceeded to develop a new style of painting giving a more realistic view of the world in which he lived. He also begins love affairs with one of his models, Ranuccio as well as with Ranuccio’s girlfriend Lena. Their relationship leads to murder and deceit.

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Montreal Main 1974

Montreal Main 1974

Montreal Main 1974

Montreal Main 1974
1h 28min | Drama | 7 March 1974 (USA)

Storyline:

In Frank Vitale’s autobiographical study, he plays a photographer living among the assorted outcasts, junkies, and artists populating Montreal’s Main. Quieter and more introspective than most of his friends, Frank becomes smitten by Johnny, a fourteen-year-old from the suburbs. But the relationship is doomed by the startling degree of hypocrisy and possessiveness that boils over among the group when they discover the intensity of Frank’s feelings about the boy.

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