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Title: bizarre and mystifying
Review: I've left the television to write this review, as I was worried that any more eye-rolling was going to damage my vision. Leo di Caprio as the French Symbolist poet, Rimbaud? Well, it's actually WORSE than I could have imagined! It's as if he's accidentally wandered from Los Angeles, 1995, into a Masterpiece Theatre production, complete with typically excellent British actors. It even sounds as if he's ad libbing lines, they're so utterly anachronistic. I guess I could try to see this as a time-travel story-- then his fist-in-the-air "woo!" wouldn't seem like an asonishing directorial lapse as much as an illustration of behavioral differences between fin de siecle France and contemporary American teen culture.I'd love to see what Mystery Science Theater could do with this goofy waste of film and decent British actors. I second the previous reviewer who suggested just getting a couple of books of poetry instead of this film.
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