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Plot: This biographical account of the tempestuous, taboo-shattering love affair between two 19th century French poets--Paul Verlaine (David Thewlis) and Arthur Rimbaud (Leonardo DiCaprio)--didn't do much a...( read more  )t the box office when it was released in 1995. But after the success of Titanic, it became somewhat infamous when Playgirl magazine announced its intention to publish nude pictures of DiCaprio taken from the film. (Nobody much seemed to care that Thewlis, who also starred in Mike Leigh's Naked, also appears nude in Total Eclipse.) The truth is, the nudity in question only lasts for a few frames, but it's certainly in character for the young wild-man Rimbaud.

Directed by Agnieszka Holland (Europa, Europa, The Secret Garden), Total Eclipse begins in 1870 when the newly married Verlaine is 24 and Rimbaud is 17. The volatile combination of their reckless passions, idiosyncratic talents, and obnoxious egos is a recipe for disaster--and l'amour fou--culminating in a two-year prison term for Verlaine who was convicted of sodomy. DiCaprio's work in this film (as well as This Boy's Life, What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, and The Basketball Diaries) proves he is a serious actor who's interested in risky, challenging work--not just the matinee idol he became in the wake of Titanic. --Jim Emerson

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  MCT:

  June 16, 2008

  Esta es probablemente la mejor actuación de Leo DiCaprio y lo hace nada más y nada menos que en el papel del gran Poeta Jean Arthur Rimbaud. Sin embargo, esta película no es para los débiles de corazón o para aquéllos que presumen de pureza de corazón. Esta película es un minucioso y prolongado desarreglo de todos los sentidos.

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  June 11, 2008

  Story of french poets Beaudelaire and Rimbaud.. Nice steamy scenes between Leo DiCaprio and another dude...

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  March 10, 2008

  I liked it- mostly because of the artsy feel it gave off. DiCaprio just blew me away and I actually didn't realize that Verlaine was played by David Thewlis until near the end of it. Wow. He did an amazing job as well.

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  February 3, 2008

  i love it. fantastic movie and it brings tears and sadness. incredible such a love affair could happen in the 19th century. i really feel for Rimbaud. love him.

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  December 27, 2007

  Very impressive movie and Leonardo DiCaprio has really good performance in it. I think he is somehow talented in acting.

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  i haven't seen this movie yet, but i'm really looking forward to doing so. i absolutly LOVE Leonardo DiCaprio!! He is truly an amazing actor, one of my all time faves.

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  David Thewlis
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  Dominique Blanc
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  Leonardo DiCaprio
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  Romane Bohringer

• Rated: (R)
• Directed by: Agnieszka Holland
• Genres: Art House & International, Drama
• Released: November 3, 1995
• DVD Released: December 21, 1999

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