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Review of by Desson Thomson for Washington Post — 03 Feb 1997

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Presumably, there's a poignant story to be told about the love between 19th-century poets Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud. But Agnieszka Holland's Total Eclipse, a pretentious, flat affair, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Rimbaud and David Thewlis as Verlaine, is not the film to pull it off.

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This review of Total Eclipse (1995) was written by and published by Washington Post on 03 Feb 1997.

Total Eclipse has generally received mixed reviews.

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