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Francis Bacon: A Brush with Violence (2017)
Wei Yu
A BBC documentary on Francis Bacon, the loud, hard-drinking British painter, drawing on people who knew him. It explores the haunted man behind the Roaring Boy persona.
HN commenters recommend it as a well-made, interesting and sad documentary on Bacon's troubled life.
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