A young Daniel Craig is the muse in this portrait of a tortured queer artist

Image Credit: ‘Love Is The Devil,’ Strand Releasing

Welcome back to our queer film retrospective, “A Gay Old Time.” In this week’s column, let’s revisit 1998’s Love Is The Devil: Study For A Portrait Of Francis Bacon, a sensual, sensitive biopic of the titular artist, which is screening right now via NewFest’s spring Queering The Canon series.

Biopics about artists are a well-trotted genre. Whether it’s musicians, performers, visual artists or filmmakers, there is innate narrative tension in what it takes for someone to create something out of nothing; what inspires their vision, what obstacles get in the way of their self-expression, and the trajectory of their life towards fame and recognition (if there was any). 

However, because of the similar beats that most successful artistic figures tend

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