Article: `Total Eclipse': poetry without motion

TOTAL ECLIPSE

Directed by: Agnieszka Holland

Screenplay by: Christopher Hampton (based on his play)

Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, David Thewlis, Romane

Bohringer

Playing at: Nickelodeon, Harvard Square, West Newton

Rated: R (strong sexuality and nudity, language and some startling violence)

Given its volatile subject matter -- the supercharged and mutually destructive relationship of French poets Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud -- "Total Eclipse" is, against all odds, totally tedious. Far from launching modern poetry on the twinned aesthetic of Verlaine's lyricism and Rimbaud's uncompromising audacity, the film moves what might have happened between the two romantic ...

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