Total mistake. Conventional literary "biopic" on the anti-conventional French poets (and homosexual lovers) Rimbaud and Verlaine, the both of them reduced to boorish bohemians who never have to put up any actual work in partial justification. The cast produces an international cacophony: the American Leonardo DiCaprio as the adolescent Rimbaud (known to filmgoers as the idol of the disappearing rock star of Eddie and the Cruisers, and in DiCaprio's embodiment, inevitably bearing a resemblance to poet-rocker-junkie Jim Carroll of The Basketball Diaries); the Britisher David Thewlis as Verlaine; the authentically French Romane Bohringer as Mme. Verlaine -- all talking in their natural accents. Written by Christopher Hampton; directed by Agnieszka Holland. (1995) — Duncan Shepherd
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