Friends of Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan romantic comedies beware! This is a love story, but not your usual Hollywood fare. This pre-Titanic film reminds us that DiCaprio is truly a fine actor, who was willing to take risks for the challenge of a good role. And boy, did he find one here: Arthur Rimbaud. Joining DiCaprio in this tale of 19th century French poets is the brilliant David Thewlis as Paul Verlaine.
There is actually not a single character in this film who is really likable, and that's what separates it from the rest of the pabulum that we tend to get as a daily diet. There are moments that you adore them, then minutes later they couldn't be more loathsome. How like the real world! How like ourselves!
The psychological roller coaster ride of a relationship between two brilliant, but - through their genius - thoroughly disturbed, people is fascinating and never for a second boring.
It's not warm and fuzzy, but it will move you all the same.
There is actually not a single character in this film who is really likable, and that's what separates it from the rest of the pabulum that we tend to get as a daily diet. There are moments that you adore them, then minutes later they couldn't be more loathsome. How like the real world! How like ourselves!
The psychological roller coaster ride of a relationship between two brilliant, but - through their genius - thoroughly disturbed, people is fascinating and never for a second boring.
It's not warm and fuzzy, but it will move you all the same.