Dirs: David Bickerstaff, Phil Grabsky | UK Biopic 2025
There was no ivory tower for Caravaggio. Milan was suffering a terrible plague when he born in 1571 losing his father and grandfather in the outbreak that left his family poverty stricken when he was still only a teenager.
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio would become a maverick in the art world, and is remembered for an astonishingly gutsy style of painting coloured by a life touched by crime and violence. His masterpieces are still some of art’s most instantly recognisable and have captivated audiences for centuries. What do these masterpieces reveal about the troubled man behind the brush?
Five years in the making, this is the most extensive film ever made about this radical artist. With dramatic first-hand testimony from Caravaggio himself on the eve of his mysterious disappearance, the documentary makes use of close-ups of the artist’s work along with dramatised sequences and expert interviews from curators and critics who enliven this immersive examination of Caravaggio as never before adding value to the story of one of history’s most brilliant, complex and controversial figures.
IN UK CINEMAS FROM 11 November 2025 Courtesy of Exhibition on Screen and Seventh Art Productions