Top Billed Cast

Nigel Terry
Caravaggio
Sean Bean
Ranuccio
Garry Cooper
Davide
Dexter Fletcher
Young Caravaggio
Spencer Leigh
Jerusaleme
Tilda Swinton
Lena
Nigel Davenport
Giustiniani
Robbie Coltrane
Scipione Borghese
Michael Gough
Cardinal Del Monte
Noam Almaz
Boy Caravaggio
Dawn Archibald
Pipo
Jack Birkett
The Pope
Una Brandon-Jones
Weeping Woman
Imogen Claire
Lady with the Jewels
Sadie Corre
Princess Collona
Lol Coxhill
Old Priest
Vernon Dobtcheff
Art Lover
Terry Downes
Bodyguard
Jonathan Hyde
Baglione
Emile Nicolaou
Young Jerusaleme
Gene October
Model Peeling Fruit
Cindy Oswin
Lady Elizabeth
John Rogan
Vatican Official
Zohra Sehgal
Jerusaleme's Grandmother
Lucien Taylor
Boy with Guitar
Simon Fisher-Turner
Fra Filippo
Derek Jarman
Papal Aide (uncredited)
Cerith Wyn Evans
Altar Boy (uncredited)

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A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on Wed Aug 21 2024

I knew there had to be a reason why anyone ever cared about Sean Bean. A more wooden actor I think I've never seen, but here his conniving "Ranuccio" is sexy and provocative and put together with Nigel Terry's convincing performance as the eponymous artist and Dexter Fletcher's efforts as the younger, manipulative, Caravaggio, this is a no-holes barred/bared look at debauchery and hedonism in a papal Italy that was way more interested in sex and depravity than it was upholding the values of Christian decency. Indeed, the closer to the throne of St. Peter one gets the more licentious you seem to...