Total Eclipse (1995) on Netflix
R19951h 51mBiographyDramaRomance
Poet Paul Verlaine invites teenage Arthur Rimbaud from the provinces to live at his father-in-law's house in Paris. Rimbaud's manners scandalize the household, but Verlaine is invigorated.
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Plot summary
Paul Verlaine is an established poet of 27 living in Paris with Mathilde, his young pregnant wife, in the house of her wealthy father. In 1871 he receives the poems sent from the provinces by a teenage Arthur Rimbaud and invites the boy to stay. Rimbaud arrives without manners or any sense of decency, upsetting Verlaine's in-laws and the closed world of French poets. Married respectability has been stifling Verlaine's talent, and he drinks absinthe. Where others see only rudeness, he finds the youth invigorating, and he is drawn to both the boy's body and the originality of his mind.
Cast
- Nita Kleinas Rimbaud's Mother
- Félicie Pasottias Isabelle, as a child (as Felicie Pasotti Cabarbaye)
- Emmanuelle Oppoas Vitalie
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Total Eclipse (1995)
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- Christopher Hampton's play Total Eclipse had premiered in September 1968 at the Royal Court Theatre in London, with Victor Henry as Rimbaud and Nigel Hawthorne in the cast, and a televised version was broadcast on BBC2 on 10 April 1973.
- Built from letters and poems, the film presents a historically accurate account of the relationship between the 19th-century French poets Arthur Rimbaud, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, and Paul Verlaine, played by David Thewlis.
