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Total Eclipse

Year:
Duration:
111 min
Genres:
Biography | Drama | Romance
IMDB rate:
6.5
Director:
Agnieszka Holland
Awards:
1 nomination
Details
Country: UK
Release Date: 1995-11-03
Filming Locations: Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium
Earnings
Gross: $339,889 (USA) Related Links
Cast
Actor
Character
Leonardo DiCaprio
Arthur Rimbaud
David Thewlis
Paul Verlaine
Romane Bohringer
Mathilde Maute
Dominique Blanc
Isabelle Rimbaud
Felicie Pasotti Cabarbaye
Isabelle, as a child
Nita Klein
Rimbaud's Mother
James Thiérrée
Frederic
Emmanuelle Oppo
Vitalie
Denise Chalem
Mrs. Maute De Fleurville
Andrzej Seweryn
Mr. Maute De Fleurville
Christopher Thompson
Carjat
Bruce Van Barthold
Aicard
Christopher Chaplin
Charles Cros
Christopher Hampton
The Judge
Mathias Jung
Andre
Kettly Noël
Somalian Woman
Cheb Han
Djami
Aza Declercq
Prostitute (uncredited)
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Trivia
David Thewlis shaved part of his head especially for the film so as to look like the real Verlaine.
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John Malkovich was initially attached to play Verlaine, but pulled out.
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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.
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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.
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Quotes
Arthur Rimbaud: [to Verlaine] We should make a bargain. You help me... and I'll help you. If we go away together, I'm sure you'll be able to start doing good work again. And when we've taken as much as we can from each other...
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Paul Verlaine: You don't care about my happiness, do you?
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Arthur Rimbaud: Do you love me?
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Photos from cast
Irmelin DiCaprio
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