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Pandaemonium (2000)

PG-13 | | Biography, Drama | 18 April 2001 (France)
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Friendship and betrayal between two poets during the French Revolution.

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Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
... Samuel Coleridge
... William Wordsworth
... Sara Coleridge
... Dorothy Wordsworth
... Mary Wordsworth
... John Thelwall
... Robert Southey
Michael Harbour ... Walsh
William Scott-Masson ... Tom Poole
... Dr. Gillman
... Humphry Davy
Guy Lankester ... Lord Byron
... Edith Southey
Jacqueline Defferary ... Miss Holland
Andy de la Tour ... Andrew Crosse
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Friendship and betrayal between two poets during the French Revolution.

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The surname of the Poet Laureate, Robert Southey, is mispronounced consistently by all actors throughout this film - it should be "SUH-thee", not "SOUTH-ee". See more »

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As they are rolling around from the effects of "Thornapple", the shot of the clouds rolling by show the quick streak of the exhaust of a jet airplane zipping from bottom to top of the picture. See more »

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Like one that on a lonesome road doth walk in fear and dread, and having once turned 'roud walks on and turns no more his head, because he knows a frightful fiend doth close behind him tred. 'Tis a strange place this limbo, not a place yet named so.
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The credits start with one letter, which becomes the name of the person involved. They don't seem to make any sense, but most are letters incorporated in the word PANDAEMONIUM (the last Text before the Cast Listing starts). See more »

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References Xanadu (1980) See more »

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Chylde Owlet
Trad.Arr. Nick Ingman / BBC Music Publishing Ltd.
Sung by Gemma Padley
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Very Enjoyable Film
5 April 2002 | by – See all my reviews

I saw the movie on DVD and really enjoyed it. I guess I thought Wordsworth and Coleridge were more friendly than this (and maybe they were) in reality. The film sure is biased towards Coleridge. Wordsworth comes off very badly--he gives up on his revolutionary principles, marries a shrewish wife, and seems only interested in how he will be viewed by posterity. Wordsworth goes to visit Coleridge and to collaborate with him, but can't seem to put a single word to paper. Then, suddenly, _Lyrical Ballads_ is finished and published and filled with Wordsworth's poetry!

The performances are excellent, particularly Linus Roache as Coleridge and Emily Woof as Dorothy Wordsworth. I was reminded of a similar film, _Haunted Summer_, which portrays the meeting of Percy Shelley and Lord Byron. The film is a bit odd at times, with jet trails moving across the skies of the 18th century, but it does a great job of getting at the creative impulse, showing the feverish bouts of imagination that gave rise to Coleridge's _Rime of the Ancient Mariner_ and the fragment _Kubla Khan_ (interesting that it shows an interruption by Wordsworth as the cause of STC losing his train of thought). Also, the scene with frost forming on the window while Coleridge cares for his son Hartley, leading to one of his more memorable early poems, is a standout. This film is well worth your time and isn't the boring, stodgy take on biography that some might be fearing.
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