Riccardo Scamarcio is Caravaggio in a film by Michele Placido in theaters starting Nov. 3

Michele Placido’s L’ombra di Caravaggio, a Goldenart Production and Rai Cinema film, will be released in theaters on Nov. 3. The film, which stars Riccardo Scamarcio as the great Michelangelo Merisi, better known as Caravaggio, “explores,” the production anticipates in a note, “the intricate and adventurous existence of the painter from Lombardy, told in his profound contradictions and in the darkness of his impenetrable torment. Rebellious and restless, devout and scandalous, independent and transgressive, the Caravaggio that Placido stages is a cursed artist of absolute talent, but above all a sort of ante litteram rock star, a tormented man, forced to face the disturbing implications of a reckless life, with its women and its demons, in which genius and unruliness coexist to give us a timeless character and a fascinating and universal icon.”

Riccardo Scamarcio is joined by an international cast consisting of Louis Garrel, Isabelle Huppert, Micaela Ramazzotti, Tedua, Vinicio Marchioni and Lolita Chammah, who are joined by Alessandro Haber, Moni Ovadia, Brenno Placido, Maurizio Donadoni, Lorenzo Lavia, Gianfranco Gallo and many others.

Following is the synopsis of the film: “Italy 1600. Michelangelo Merisi is a brilliant artist and a rebel against the rules dictated by the Council of Trent, which drew the exact coordinates in the representation of sacred art. After learning that Caravaggio used prostitutes, thieves and vagrants in his sacred paintings, Pope Paul V decides to commission a secret Vatican agent to carry out a proper investigation, to decide whether to grant the pardon the painter asked for after he was sentenced to death for killing his rival in love in a duel. So the Shadow, this is the name of the investigator, begins his activities of inquiry and espionage to investigate the painter who-with his life and his art-fascinates, upsets, subverts. A Shadow who will have in his hands absolute power, of life and death, over the fate of a genius.”

You can also already see the official trailer for the film.

Riccardo Scamarcio is Caravaggio in a film by Michele Placido in theaters starting Nov. 3

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