Total Eclipse - Fall in love

This movie touched me in so many ways, I say that anyone who has not seen this should go buy the DVD right away!
(Go! you know you want to!)

Movie is Total Eclipse
Directed by Agnieszka Holland
Starring
Leonardo DiCaprio as Arthur Rimbaud
David Thewlis as Paul Verlaine

Music by
Bassboosa - Wicked Game


Summary:

(MAJOR spoiler warning)

Total Eclipse is a 1995 film directed by Agnieszka Holland, based on a 1967 play by Christopher Hampton, who also wrote the screenplay. Based on letters and poems, it presents a historically accurate account of the passionate and violent homosexual relationship between the two 19th century French poets Paul Verlaine (David Thewlis) and Arthur Rimbaud (Leonardo DiCaprio), at a time of soaring creativity for both of them.

The older Paul Verlaine meets the dead Arthur Rimbaud's sister in a café in Paris, in 1896. Rimbaud's sister and mother want Verlaine to hand over any copies he may still have of Rimbaud poems so that they can burn them; they fear the lewdness of his writings. Verlaine reflects on the wild relationship he had had with Rimbaud, beginning when the teen-aged Rimbaud had sent his poetry to Verlaine from his home in the provinces. Verlaine, instantly fascinated, impulsively invites him to his rich father-in-law's home in Paris, where he lives with his young, pregnant wife. The wild, eccentric Rimbaud displays no sense of manners or decency whatever, scandalising Verlaine's pretentious, bourgeois in-laws.

Verlaine is seduced by the 16-year-old Rimbaud's physical body as well as by the unique originality of his creative mind. The staid respectability of married, heterosexual life and easy, middle class surroundings had been stifling Verlaine's admittedly sybaritic literary talent. His taking up with Rimbaud is as much a rebellion and a liberation as it is a giving in to self-indulgence and masochism. Rimbaud acts as sadistically to Verlaine as does Verlaine to his young wife, whom he eventually deserts. A violent, itinerant relationship ensues between the two poets, the sad climax of which arrives in Brussels when an enraged and practically insane Verlaine shoots and wounds Rimbaud and is sentenced to prison for sodomy and attempted murder.

In prison, Verlaine experiences a conversion to Christianity much mocked by his erstwhile lover. Upon release he meets Rimbaud in Germany, vainly and mistakenly seeking to revive the relationship. The two men part, however, never to meet again. Bitterly renouncing literature in any form, Rimbaud travels the world alone, finally settling in Abyssinia (modern day Ethiopia) to run a "trading post." There he has an African mistress and possibly a young African boy-lover. A tumor in his right knee forces him back to France where his leg is amputated. Nevertheless, the cancer spreads and he dies at the age of 37.

Rimbaud's sister asserts that her brother had accepted confession from a priest right before he died and shown Christian penitence, which is why only the censored versions of his poetry should survive. Verlaine pretends to agree but tears up her card after she leaves. Later, Verlaine, drinking absinthe to which he has become addicted, sees a vision of Rimbaud, returned from some transcendent realm to express the love and respect Verlaine has thus posthumously earned.

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• leonardo
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• david
• thewlis
• love
• homosexual
• gay
• yaoi
• romance
• passion
• poet
• sex

[MicaelaDesrosiers]

okayy.. i think im gonna watch this movie RIGHT NOW! looks amazing

[DWObsidian]

Hope you enjoyed it! =)

[AuroraDeVenessia]

I simply loved the scene of the sea

[DWObsidian]

It really is a beautiful scene

[ohjohny]

Good video! The song suits very well. Thanks)

I'm a big fan of Rimbaud and I liked "Total Eclipse" a lot - DiCaprio's performance is great!

[DWObsidian]

Thank you very much =)

[aggi18]

two geniuses of poetry fall in love with each other. as for me that's the most wonderful thing that could ever happen but it just had to end the way it did... too much passion

[histrionicbanshee]

Maybe if you blow your professor, he'll let you re-read your copy of Mein Kampf in class.

[slendersail]

@aggi18 They could have lifted each other up, but they couldn't deal with their mutual dependence, they kept feeding it. You have to be at one with yourself before you can be at one with another. We studied these poets in highschool but no-one told us "anything" about them, even if poet biographies were all the rage. Amazing... I was also a fan of DiCaprio (wrote a list of his films) but never came across this film. It would've helped me deal with highschool. Ah well, water under the bridge..

[RobeRnR]

What's the name of the song??

[cypressempires]

this movie opened my eyes in many ways, im in the process of ordering the soundtrack which was very hard to find because its so rare! by the way never ever delete this video.

[emokiddy666]

Mmmm other boys, gay pride!

[ben108]

wonderful movie i hv ever seen. the love of authur is so pure, but i hate regret. i wonder why everyone starts to regret for something who has lost already.. they never know how to treasure the love. it is sad, it is really sad...........

[SaymonDenis]

this song is WICKED GAME the oryginal artist of this song is CHRISS ISAAC . but who sing in this version ? :) :)

[AnneFrederick7]

An awesome film!

Thanks for this wonderful clip!