An evocative study of desire, sexuality, power, and violence. The director revives Caravaggio's paintings, transferring their compositions from canvas to screen, transforming them into living tableaus where erotics meet brutality and art meets physicality. Portraying marginalized people as biblical figures, he blurs the lines between past and present, male and female, active and passive, elite and misery. Through androgyny, gender ambiguity, and a Bacchic celebration of the body, he creates space for a queer reading of identity, desire, and representation.

Berlinale 1986