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Article: `Total Eclipse': poetry without motion
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 3, 1995
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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 ...