Riccardo Scamarcio to star in L’Ombra di Caravaggio.

A brand new movie concerning the tumultuous lifetime of Italian Baroque grasp Michelangelo Merisi, recognized to the world as Caravaggio, is ready for launch in cinemas throughout Italy on 3 November.

The Italian-language film, titled L’Ombra di Caravaggio (Caravaggio’s Shadow), is directed by Michele Placido and stars Riccardo Scamarcio because the good however tormented artist.

Produced by Goldenart Manufacturing with Rai Cinema, the movie’s worldwide forged additionally contains Louis Garrel, Isabelle Huppert and Lolita Chammah.

The film will discover the persona of the painter, “rebellious and stressed, devoted and scandalous, impartial and transgressive”, based on the press launch.

The movie centres round a Vatican investigation into Caravaggio – after Pope Paul V found that the artist “used prostitutes, thieves and vagabonds in his sacred work” – to find out whether or not or to not pardon the painter from a dying sentence for killing a person in a duel.

Placido’s Caravaggio “is a cursed artist with absolute expertise, however above all an ante litteram rock star, a insurgent with no trigger compelled to face the disturbing implications of a reckless life, along with his girls and his demons, by which genius and recklessness coexist to provide us a timeless character and a captivating and common icon”.