Rochester
Mar 10, 2006 · The Libertine ( 2004) The Libertine. The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn posthumous critical acclaim for his life's work.
Cast. Johnny Depp as John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester. John Malkovich as King Charles II. Samantha Morton as Elizabeth Barry. Rosamund Pike as Elizabeth Wilmot, Countess of Rochester (née Elizabeth Malet) Tom Hollander as Sir George Etherege. Johnny Vegas as Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset. ...
The Libertine. (354) IMDb 6.3 1h 54min 2005 R. In every generation, there comes along a person so scandalous, so rebellious, so willing to break taboos that they topple the world's ideas of what being a free spirit truly means. In the 17th century that person was unequivocally John Wilmot, AKA the 2nd Earl of Rochester the wily and talented rogue who in the course of his short, wild life, become known all at once as a troublemaker, a genius and one of history's most irrepressible believers ...
A raw and ugly tale of debauchery, The Libertine tries to be offensive...and succeeds. The story follows famed writer John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, as his decadent lifestyle consumes him. Johnny...
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A sex comedy about a young widow, Mimi who discovers that her recently deceased husband, Franco kept a secret apartment for his kinky desires. Frustrated that he did not explore his sexual fantasies with his wife, she embarks on a quest to understand perversion and sexuality. She uses her late husband's apartment to seduce various men, each time learning more about the depths of human deprivation, as well as the extent of the sexual double standard for women.
One simply cannot speak of The Libertine without autoplay in the mind of the cellos; those quiet stringed prophecies of what's to come. When asked what is my favorite film of all time, my answer is The Libertine. This is the young-Depp's Hamlet, a painful performance of self-loathing that also captures Depp at his most physically beautiful.
Movie Info A French widow (Catherine Spaak) discovers her husband's secret sex games and plays them with a doctor (Jean-Louis Trintignant).
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"The Libertine," a film by Laurence Dunmore, is based on Jeffreys' play, which opened in 1994 at the Royal Court in London and was brought to Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre with John Malkovich as Rochester.
The Libertine (La Matriarca; a.k.a. The Matriarch) is an 1969 Italian film directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile.
The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn posthumo...
