BFI Film Sales has been besieged with enquiries about John Maybury's Love is the Devil. The low budget BFI/BBC co-production, which was shot last year at the tiny Three Mills Studios in East London and on location in Paris, is loosely adapted from Daniel Farson's memoir, The Gilded Gutter Life of Francis Bacon. It charts the relationship between Bacon (Derek Jacobi) and his lover, the minor East End gangster George Dyer (Daniel Craig). To recreate the seedy, Bohemian world of Soho in the 60s, Maybury recruited an illustrious cast of supporting actors, everybody from Anita Pallenberg to young British artists Gary Hume and Sarah Lucas. Tilda Swinton co-stars as legendary Soho drinking club hostess, Muriel Belcher. Original music was written for the film by Oscar-winning composer Ryuichi Sakomoto. Love Is The Devil had been expected to make its festival debut in Berlin, but now looks likely to surface in Cannes. GM