Caravaggio – The Soul and the Blood is the title of the latest art movie produced by Sky and Magnitudo Film, entirely devoted to the fascinating and controversial figure of Michelangelo Merisi, the 16th-century Italian artist known as Caravaggio.

He was a tormented man and artist who always struggled with contradictory urges: constraint and the search for freedom, hardship and dissipation, pain and passion, sin and quest for mercy and salvation. 

The film is a narrative and visual excursus through the places where the artist lived and those that today still hold some of his most famous works: Milan, Florence, Rome, Naples and Malta.

The movie makes use of precious original papers – in some case recent findings including police reports and allegations – and the scientific advisory and speeches by Claudio Strinati, a passionate art historian who dedicated a broad part of his work to Caravaggio.

The film, directed by the award-winning Mexican director Jesus Garces Lambert, also features contributions by Mina Gregori (president at the Fondazione di Studi di Storia dell’Arte Roberto Longhi) and Rossella Vodret, who curated the Dentro Caravaggio exhibit at Palazzo Reale in Milan.

The film features many of the painter’s masterpieces, reconstructing their making also thanks to state-of-the-art technology.

Caravaggio – The Soul and The Blood is being screened at Eden Cinemas today, tomorrow and Sunday.  More information may be obtained by phone on 2371 0421 or online at www.edencinemas.com.