Article: There's No Poetry in Depiction of Verlaine, Rimbaud

TOTAL ECLIPSE (STAR) (STAR) 1/2 Arthur Rimbaud Leonardo DiCaprio Paul Verlaine David Thewlis Mathilde Verlaine Romane Bohringer Isabelle Rimbaud Dominique Blanc Directed by Agnieszka Holland. Written by Christopher Hampton. Running time: 110 minutes. Rated R (for strong sexuality and nudity, language and some startling violence). Opening today at select local theaters. There is a story, perhaps true, that when Bennett Cerf visited James Joyce in Paris, he told Nora Joyce, "Your husband is a great man." To which Nora replied, "You don't have to live with the bloody fool."

Mathilde Verlaine, wife of the French poet Paul Verlaine, might have used the same words - in French, ...

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