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Director: |
Agnieszka Holland
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Starring: |
Leonardo Dicaprio, David Thewlis, Romane Bohringer, Mathias Jung, Dominique Blanc, Christopher Hampton, Christopher Chaplin, Bruce Van Barthold, Christopher Thompson, Andrzej Seweryn, Emmanuelle Oppo, James Thiérrée, Nita Klein, Felicie Pasotti Cabarbaye, Denise Chalem
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Genres: |
Biography, The Arts, Romantic Drama, Historical Drama, Indie-Arthouse Cinema
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Origin: |
United Kingdom
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Certificate: |
MA
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Languages: |
English
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Aspect ratios: |
1.85 : 1
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Sound formats: |
Dolby SR
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Running Time: |
111 min
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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.
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