While restoring a fifteenth-century painting Julia reveals a hidden Latin phrase. A series of murders begin to rock her small world of art experts, patrons and restorers, and she finds that the mystery of the painting is interwoven with the mystery of the deaths around her.
Cinematography
Barcelona's golden light makes art restoration oddly sensual.
Acting
Kate Beckinsale's first lead—already serving face and suspicion.
Director
Jim McBride
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Kate Beckinsale's first film role after dropping out of Oxford—she allegedly took it because she wanted to film in Barcelona.
The painting's fictional backstory borrows heavily from the real-life mystery of Caravaggio's lost works and the violent world of Renaissance patronage.
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