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Total Eclipse
Drama, Romance
Young, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine engage in a fierce, forbidden romance while feeling the effects of a hellish artistic lifestyle.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers drawn to volatile literary romances, doomed queer desire, and psychologically raw portraits of artistic excess.
- Tone
- romantic, bleak, melancholic
- Payoff
- heartbreak, reflection
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- artistic obsession, forbidden love, self-destruction, social rebellion, mentorship
- Setting
- late nineteenth century, bohemian Parisian salons and shadowy European interiors