Total Eclipse (1995)

Note des utilisateurs:

6.2/10   

Réalisateur:

Agnieszka Holland

Scénariste:

Christopher Hampton (writer)

Release Date:

3 novembre 1995 (USA)

Genre:

Biographie | Drame | Romance

Accroche:

Touched by Genius. Cursed by Madness. Blinded by Love.

Plot:

The self-destructive relationship between 19th-century teenage French poet Arthur Rimbaud and his older mentor Paul Verlaine.

Plot Keywords:

Surrealism | Bourgeoisie | Love Triangle | Father In Law | Brother Sister Relationship

Awards:

1 nomination

Avis des utilisateurs:

Eccentric and poetical

Ensemble

Leonardo DiCaprio	...	Arthur Rimbaud
David Thewlis	...	Paul Verlaine
Romane Bohringer	...	Mathilde Maute
Dominique Blanc	...	Isabelle Rimbaud
Felicie Pasotti Cabarbaye	...	Isabelle, as a child
Nita Klein	...	Rimbaud's Mother
James Thiérrée	...	Frederic
Emmanuelle Oppo	...	Vitalie
Denise Chalem	...	Mrs. Maute De Fleurville
Andrzej Seweryn	...	Mr. Maute De Fleurville
Christopher Thompson	...	Carjat
Bruce Van Barthold	...	Aicard
Christopher Chaplin	...	Charles Cros
Christopher Hampton	...	The Judge
Mathias Jung	...	Andre

Autre(s) titre(s) :

Eclipse totale (France) (DVD title)
Poeti dall'inferno (Italy)
Rimbaud Verlaine (France)
Poètes maudits, Les (Canada: French title) (TV title) [fr]

MPAA:

Rated R for strong sexuality and nudity, language, and some startling violence.

Durée:

111 min

Pays:

UK | France | Belgium | Italy

Langue:

Anglais

Couleur:

Couleur

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Son:

Dolby SR

Classification:

Iceland:16 | Australia:MA (15+) | Singapore:(Banned) | Argentina:16 | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:18 (Nova Scotia) | Canada:R (Manitoba/Ontario) | Germany:12 | Hong Kong:III | Italy:VM18 | Portugal:M/16 | South Korea:18 | Spain:18 | UK:18 | USA:R

Emplacements De Pelliculage:

Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium

Company:

Capitol Films

Anecdotes:

River Phoenix was originally attached to the project, but the part of Rimabud went to Leonardo DiCaprio after Phoenix's death.

Goofs:

Anachronisms: In the Café Andre where the adult Isabelle Rimbaud meets with Paul Verlaine, the typeface on the window is clearly in Helvetica, a typeface that was not created until 1954.

Guillemet:

Arthur Rimbaud: Let the 98 wounds of our savior burst and bleed.

Movie Connections:

Remake of Teljes napfogyatkozás (1989) (TV)

Eccentric and poetical

This movie is not for the faint of heart or the conventional taste. It's not a fantasy.

Like the real-life characters upon which the movie is based, TE is eccentric and poetical. French poet Rimbaud, who wrote almost everything he wrote as a teenager, has been admired by some of the most eccentric creative people of the last century. He was a very unusual teenager, being some kind of genius, some kind of lowlife, and a runaway. His poetry digs into and portrays life with discomforting and sometimes painful and sometimes ecstatic detail. His is the muse which revels in the squalor of creation.

Many people will dislike this film because the two main characters, Rimbaud and Verlaine, are bisexual and not at all stereotypical. Both of them are snotty and selfish and violent and often despicable. (As Shakespeare probably was at times, but you'll never see him portrayed in movies that way.) These are not Robert Frost poets. These are worm and scat and sex and drug and rock'n'roll and get-down-and-get-dirty poets.

Past that, it's the story of a great, if brief, flowering love ... the kind of love story you'd expect for people who live and breathe life in the way great alternaculture poets must.

Eternity is where the sunlight mixes with the water. And the penetrating movie mixes with the prepared mind.