Total Eclipse
Total Eclipse is a 1995 erotic historical drama film directed by Agnieszka Holland, based on a 1967 play by Christopher Hampton, who also wrote the screenplay. Based on letters and poems, it presents a historically accurate account of the relationship between 19th-century French poets Arthur Rimbaud (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Paul Verlaine (David Thewlis). Warner Bros. has included the film in the catalogue of Warner Archive Collection.
Plot
The older Paul Verlaine meets Arthur Rimbaud's sister Isabelle in a café in Paris. Isabelle and her mother want Verlaine to hand over any copies he may still have of Rimbaud's poems so that they can burn them. Verlaine reflects on the relationship he formed with Rimbaud, beginning when the teenaged Rimbaud had sent his poetry to Verlaine from his home in the provinces in 1871. Verlaine impulsively invited him to his rich father-in-law's home in Paris, where he lives with his young, pregnant wife. Rimbaud displays no sense of manners or decency, scandalising Verlaine's pretentious, bourgeois in-laws.
More details
| author | Christopher Hampton |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Paris |
| director | Agnieszka Holland |
| editor | Isabelle Lorente |
| genre | drama historical |
| keywords | absinthe addict arthur rimbaud begin bourgeois bourgeoisie brussels censor claim drink former lovers married life paul verlaine pregnant wife sadistically sadomasochism sodomy sybaritic trading post walk |
| musicBy | Jan A. P. Kaczmarek |
| producer | Philip Hinchcliffe Victor Glynn |
| publisher | Fine Line Features |
| recordedAt | Djibouti |
| theme | biographical biographical drama independent romantic drama |