Total Eclipse
(1995)
★ 6.4 IMDb · 567 votes
Year: 1995
Runtime: 111 мин
Country: France, Belgium
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Cast: Леонардо ДиКаприо, Дэвид Тьюлис, Romane Bohringer, Dominique Blanc, Nita Klein, Félicie Pasotti, Джеймс Тьерре, Emmanuelle Oppo, Christopher Hampton, Denise Chalem
Plot
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 home in Paris. Rimbaud's uncouth behavior disrupts the household as well as the insular society of French poets, but Verlaine finds the youth invigorating. Stewed in absinthe and resentment, Verlaine abuses Mathiltde; he and Rimbaud become lovers and abandon her. There are reconciliations and partings with Mathiltde and partings and reconciliations with Rimbaud, until an 1873 incident with a pistol sends one of them to prison. Codas dramatize the poets' final meeting and last illnesses.