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Total Eclipse

  • 1995
  • R
  • 1h 51m
IMDb RATING
6.5/10
16K
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Total Eclipse (1995)
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BiographyDramaRomance

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.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.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.

  • Director
    • Agnieszka Holland
  • Writer
    • Christopher Hampton
  • Stars
    • Leonardo DiCaprio
    • David Thewlis
    • Romane Bohringer
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.5/10
    16K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Agnieszka Holland
    • Writer
      • Christopher Hampton
    • Stars
      • Leonardo DiCaprio
      • David Thewlis
      • Romane Bohringer
    • 88User reviews
    • 21Critic reviews
    • 42Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 win & 1 nomination

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    Leonardo DiCaprio in Total Eclipse (1995)
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    Leonardo DiCaprio in Total Eclipse (1995)
    David Thewlis and Romane Bohringer in Total Eclipse (1995)
    Leonardo DiCaprio and David Thewlis in Total Eclipse (1995)
    Leonardo DiCaprio in Total Eclipse (1995)
    Leonardo DiCaprio and David Thewlis in Total Eclipse (1995)
    Leonardo DiCaprio, David Thewlis, and Romane Bohringer in Total Eclipse (1995)
    Leonardo DiCaprio and Romane Bohringer in Total Eclipse (1995)
    Leonardo DiCaprio in Total Eclipse (1995)
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    Leonardo DiCaprio
    Leonardo DiCaprio
    • Arthur Rimbaud
    David Thewlis
    David Thewlis
    • Paul Verlaine
    Romane Bohringer
    Romane Bohringer
    • Mathilde Maute
    Dominique Blanc
    Dominique Blanc
    • Isabelle Rimbaud
    Félicie Pasotti
    • Isabelle, as a child
    • (as Felicie Pasotti Cabarbaye)
    Nita Klein
    Nita Klein
    • Rimbaud's Mother
    James Thierrée
    • Frederic
    • (as James Thiérrée)
    Emmanuelle Oppo
    • Vitalie
    Denise Chalem
    • Mrs. Maute De Fleurville
    Andrzej Seweryn
    Andrzej Seweryn
    • Mr. Maute De Fleurville
    Christopher Thompson
    • Carjat
    Bruce Van Barthold
    Bruce Van Barthold
    • Aicard
    Christopher Chaplin
    Christopher Chaplin
    • Charles Cros
    Christopher Hampton
    Christopher Hampton
    • The Judge
    Mathias Jung
    • Andre
    Kettly Noël
    Kettly Noël
    • Somalian Woman
    Cheb Han
    • Djami
    Aza Declercq
    Aza Declercq
    • Prostitute
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Agnieszka Holland
    • Writer
      • Christopher Hampton
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    • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

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    • Trivia
      Ouzo was used as a replacement for absinthe for the drinking scenes filmed on the first day. Because the scene turned out so well, method drinking was adopted for the rest of filming. As a result, Thewlis had admitted in a interview that he can't really remember making the film at all.
    • Goofs
      In the Café Andre where the adult Isabelle Rimbaud meets with Paul Verlaine, the typeface on the window is clearly in Helvetica, a typeface that was not created until 1954.
    • Quotes

      [last lines]

      Arthur Rimbaud: I've found it. What? Eternity. It's the sun mingled with the sea.

    • Connections
      Featured in Siskel & Ebert: The American President/Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls/Kicking and Screaming/Carrington/Total Eclipse (1995)
    • Soundtracks
      Arrival
      Composed by Hank Deckon and Jan A.P. Kaczmarek

      Performed by Warsaw Symphony Orchestra and Wilanow String Quartet

      Conductor [Warsaw Symphony] Krzesimir Debski

    User reviews88

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    7/10
    Eccentric and poetical
    This movie is not for the faint of heart or the conventional taste. It's not a fantasy.

    Like the real-life characters upon which the movie is based, TE is eccentric and poetical. French poet Rimbaud, who wrote almost everything he wrote as a teenager, has been admired by some of the most eccentric creative people of the last century. He was a very unusual teenager, being some kind of genius, some kind of lowlife, and a runaway. His poetry digs into and portrays life with discomforting and sometimes painful and sometimes ecstatic detail. His is the muse which revels in the squalor of creation.

    Many people will dislike this film because the two main characters, Rimbaud and Verlaine, are bisexual and not at all stereotypical. Both of them are snotty and selfish and violent and often despicable. (As Shakespeare probably was at times, but you'll never see him portrayed in movies that way.) These are not Robert Frost poets. These are worm and scat and sex and drug and rock'n'roll and get-down-and-get-dirty poets.

    Past that, it's the story of a great, if brief, flowering love ... the kind of love story you'd expect for people who live and breathe life in the way great alternaculture poets must.

    Eternity is where the sunlight mixes with the water. And the penetrating movie mixes with the prepared mind.
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    • Apr 17, 2003

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    • Release date
      • November 3, 1995 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • France
      • United Kingdom
      • Belgium
    • Official site
      • Fine Line Features
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • El fuego y la sombra
    • Filming locations
      • Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium
    • Production companies
      • FIT Productions
      • Portman Productions
      • Société Française de Production (SFP)
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $8,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $340,139
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $131,269
      • Nov 5, 1995
    • Gross worldwide
      • $340,139
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 51 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby SR
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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