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Nov 3, 1995 · Total Eclipse: Directed by Agnieszka Holland. With Leonardo DiCaprio, David Thewlis, Romane Bohringer, Dominique Blanc. Young, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine engage in a fierce, forbidden romance while feeling the effects of a hellish artistic lifestyle.
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- Biography, Drama, Romance
- Agnieszka Holland
- 1995-11-03
Total Eclipse is a 1995 erotic historical drama film directed by Agnieszka Holland, based on a 1967 play by Christopher Hampton, who also wrote the screenplay. Based on letters and poems, it presents a historically accurate account of the relationship between 19th-century French poets Arthur Rimbaud ( Leonardo DiCaprio ) and Paul Verlaine ...
- €6,780,000
- Jan A.P. Kaczmarek
- 3 November 1995 (United States)
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Summaries. Young, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine engage in a fierce, forbidden romance while feeling the effects of a hellish artistic lifestyle. In 1871, Paul Verlaine (1844-1896), an established poet, invites boy genius Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) to live with Paul and his young pregnant wife, Mathiltde, in her father's ...
R 1995 1h 50m Drama List 22% Tomatometer 18 Reviews 60% Audience Score 5,000+ Ratings Youthful poet Paul Verlaine (David Thewlis) drinks absinthe and neglects his devoted wife, Mathilde (Romane...
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Nov 3, 1995 · "Total Eclipse" tells the story of Verlaine's long-running beastliness to his wife, and of his love affair with the younger poet Arthur Rimbaud, which ended disastrously, with Verlaine spending two years in a Belgian prison on sodomy charges, and Rimbaud fleeing to Abyssinia to spend 10 years in the desert before returning to France with a ...