Fountaindale Public Library

Total eclipse, Fine Line Features ; [presented by] Jean-Pierre Ramsay Levi ; a Fit Production, Portman Production, SPF Cinema, K2 co-production with the participation of Capitol Films ; produced with the participation of the European Co-Production Fund with the participation of Canal+ and Le Studio Canal+ ; a film by Agnieszka Holland ; director of photography, Yorgos Arvanitis ; executive producers, Jean-Yves Asselin, Staffan Ahrenberg and Pascale Faubert ; produced by Jean-Pierre Ramsay Levi ; screenplay by Christopher Hampton ; directed by Agnieszka Holland

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Total eclipse

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Fine Line Features ; [presented by] Jean-Pierre Ramsay Levi ; a Fit Production, Portman Production, SPF Cinema, K2 co-production with the participation of Capitol Films ; produced with the participation of the European Co-Production Fund with the participation of Canal+ and Le Studio Canal+ ; a film by Agnieszka Holland ; director of photography, Yorgos Arvanitis ; executive producers, Jean-Yves Asselin, Staffan Ahrenberg and Pascale Faubert ; produced by Jean-Pierre Ramsay Levi ; screenplay by Christopher Hampton ; directed by Agnieszka Holland

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In September 1871, Paul Verlaine, a poet, young but already established in Paris, received a letter from the provinces containing eight extraordinary poems by one Arthur Rimbaud. He wrote back at once, saying: "My dear great soul, come to us, you are summoned, you are expected." What follows is their story directly taken from their letters and poetry. While Verlaine was a great poet, Rimbaud was a genius, a revolutionary. His poems from age sixteen to the age of nineteen forever changed the face of modern poetry. Together, these two men feed each other's insatiable hunger for life and love, trying desperately to straddle the lines between knowledge and self-destruction, creativity and delusion

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