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The Libertine
Drama, Romance
The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn posthumous critical acclaim for his life's work.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers drawn to theatrical period dramas about brilliant, corrosive personalities who turn wit, sensuality, and rebellion against convention into instruments of self-destruction.
- Tone
- bleak, darkly comic, melancholic
- Payoff
- heartbreak, catharsis
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- artistic ambition, self-destruction, mortality, sexual freedom, social hypocrisy
- Setting
- late seventeenth century, decadent aristocratic London and theatrical interiors
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