- about the time, the political and social situation of the second part of the 19th century
- about poetry and history of literature
- about the way how a biographer does investigations and segregates/separates legends and proven states
- about extraordinary persons
- about rebels and regime and church critics
The story was adapted into a movie called «Total Eclipse» in 1995. Leonardo di Caprio played Arthur Rimbaud
Film extracts:
00:49 - 01.03
01:18 - 02.20
02.50 - 03.24
The relationship to Verlaine was very dramatically with a lot of ups and downs and separations and coming together again. Rimbaud was handsome and admired by Verlaine.
- Verlaine was a drinker and got violent against his wife, his mother and Rimbaud
- Absinth, ritual like Forerunner of the cocktail hour
- shot in his hand
- Rimbaud always was forced to prove him his love
- cut with the knife
The critics compare it with 'Withnail and I'.
