Total Eclipse

About Total Eclipse

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.

Total Eclipse is a 1995 romance film directed by Agnieszka Holland. Leonardo DiCaprio takes the lead as Arthur Rimbaud, David Thewlis as Paul Verlaine, Romane Bohringer as Mathilde Maute, and Dominique Blanc as Isabelle Rimbaud.

It runs 111 minutes and was released in November 1995. Written by Christopher Hampton. The story is adapted from a stage production.

Members will find poet, mentor, LGBT, and biography in it. It scores 6.4 out of 10 from 569 TMDB voters and it carries a R rating.

Mary Shelley, Colette, and Wilde make useful companions to Total Eclipse, all filed under 19th century.