SHOWN as part of Dorset Arts Weeks, Derek Jarman’s beautifully composed 1986 film portrait of the great Italian painter played by Nigel Terry.

As the dying Caravaggio casts his mind back over his life he recalls his stormy affair with his model and muse Ranuccio Thomasoni (Sean Bean), who posed as the muscular assassin in many of his martyrdom paintings, while Ranuccio’s mistress was also the model for the Magdalene and the dead Virgin.

Robbie Coltrane, Nigel Davenport and Dexter Fletcher also feature in the film that marked Tilda Swinton’s feature debut.

Showing at the Wareham Rex (Saturday only at 8pm)