I revised my evaluation of this movie after almost five years of watching at least once every 8-10 months. I am deep lover of Rimbaud's poetry and of his character as a whole as a matter of fact. When I watched it the first time I probably had the typical gay teenagers' fascination towards the relationship that is depicted and the great performance by Di Caprio in interpreting probably the most difficult role he will ever interpret. The storytelling, direction and everything around it is so poor is almost embarrassing and the only reason this movie is getting a mere 6 (it should have gotten far worse) is the outstanding performance from Di Caprio that manages to link himself permanently to Rimbaud's figure. Everything should have been much more developed, the movie feels almost like the script was left at the first draft and never revised it. Hopefully someone else will try in the path of making some good movie Rimbaud-centred and hopefully someone will be as good as Di Caprio was in portraying him.
Review of Total Eclipse
