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Total Eclipse
Total Eclipse
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Author: Christopher Hampton Publisher: Faber & Faber Format: Softcover # of Pages: 120 Pub. Date: 1996 ISBN-10: 0571178731 ISBN-13: 9780571178735
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About
the Screenplay:
HARD
TO FIND BOOK, only a very limited number of copies are still
available.
Total
Eclipse is a screenplay by Christopher
Hampton featuring two celebrated French
poets,
Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine.
Long
before there were rock stars, there was rock star attitude, as
displayed with spectacular insolence by the young French poet Arthur
Rimbaud. Set in Paris in the late 1800s, Total Eclipse is the
story of Arthur Rimbaud and the older, better established Paul Verlaine, two of France's greatest poets. Verlaine is prone to violence and alcohol, torn between his lovely yet
conventional wife and the seductive, dangerous and brilliant Rimbaud,
a young poet whose life and work is fuelled by an insatiable hunger
for intense experience, unbounded by rules or consequences.
Total
Eclipse is the audacious, demanding and provocative story of a
volatile romantic triangle and the lives it consumes. Christopher
Hampton, who studied Rimbaud's work at Oxford, adapted this
screenplay from his highly successful stage play, originally written
in 1967, eventually being made into a film starring a young Leonardo
DiCaprio and David Thewlis in 1995.
About
the Screenwriter:
Christopher
Hampton is a British
playwright, screenwriter, director, producer, and a consummate
translator and adaptor of novels. He is perhaps most famous
for his play Les Liaisons Dangereuses (based on the novel by
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos), which won an Olivier Award in 1986. He
adapted the play for film and won an Oscar for the screenplay. His
theatre work includes the stage adaptation of Sunset Boulevard
for Andrew Lloyd Webber, which received Tony Awards for both
Book and Lyrics. He has translated a wide range of works including
classics by Chekhov, Ibsen and Moliere as well as contemporary plays
by Yasmina Reza and Florian Zeller. His long list of screenplays
includes A Doll's House, The Good Father, Total
Eclipse, and The Quiet American.
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