It’s very rare to find movies with a major actor who willingly will bare all for the camera and that’s exactly what Daniel Craig does for the 1998 film Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon.

The publicity wags tout the film with Daniel doing full frontal (and he does near the end of the movie) but for those you who just want a quick glimpse, then this movie really isn’t for you. You’d probably be better off finding the scene on a male celebrity nude website.

Of course curiosity killed the cat here and I shelled out the money for the film which was a bad mistake since it’s a very slow moving film.

As a period piece it works well, and this is the story of British painter Bacon (Derek Jacobi) and his lover George Dyer in the 1960’s. Their relationship begins when the small time crook breaks into the painter’s studio.

Bacon seduces the young burglar with a proposition: take off your clothes and come to bed with him. He promises he’ll give him anything he wants. What we later discover is the self-absorbed painter is a masochist while Dyer dominates his 30 year old senior.

Throughout the film, Dyer begins to self destruct until his death. (If you just want to get to self destruction really fast I’d recommend Valley of the Dolls).

I’m sure the movie has been released to capitalize on the success of Craig’s debut as James Bond in last year’s Casino Royale, when most men and women wondered what was hiding in that tight bathing suit. Now you’ll know.

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