I Caravaggio

<p class=MsoNormal><b>The famous bi-sexual libertine who would be more at home on Tinder than at a Roman Cathedral gallivants through the streets like brush strokes to become a Baroque 16th century icon.</b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span>The year is 1604 and Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio is a superstar his blockbuster paintings packing the pews of Rome. Caravaggio should be reveling in prosperity but the artistic trailblazer and nefarious street-brawler is his own worst enemy. While the genius paints masterpieces the ruffian in him can't stay out of jail. Caravaggio is a man at existential odds with himself until falling in love with Lena Antognetti the prostitute modeling his newest Virgin pictures. Caravaggio paints Lena into a life of wealth and celebrity but the power couple’s provocative fame earns them a horde of resentful and jealous enemies.</span></p><p class=MsoNormal></p><p class=MsoNormal> <i>I Caravaggio</i><span> dramatizes the superstar’s psychological unraveling under the sexual and political pressures of the Catholic Reformation.</span></p><p class=MsoNormal></p>