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Total Eclipse

Rating:R
Genre:Drama
Release Date:November 3, 1995
Running time:110 minutes
Cast:Leonardo DiCaprio, David Thewlis, Romane Bohringer, Dominique Blanc, Felicie Pasotti Cabarbaye
Director:Agnieszka Holland
Writer:Christopher Hampton

Description: Set in Paris in the late 1800s, this is the romantic, turbulent story of French poets Paul Verlaine (1844-96), the Prince of Poets, and Arthur Rimbaud (1854-91), the mythic poet who inspired Jim Morrison, Jack Kerouac and the rock generation. It is a psychological drama based on the complex and darkly sensual relationship between the two poets as well as an exploration into the joys and agonies of their genius.

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