Gabriel Byrne as Lord Byron in Ken Russell's Gothic (1986)
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Thinking about poets in film, there have been a number of good films about poets and bad films about poets, but has there been a great film about a poet? What poet films have stuck with you through the years?
First off, I haven't seen Bright Star, but they did seem to forget that Keats was 5'0.
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Il Postino is obviously wonderful - how may people now see Phillipe Noiret in their mind instead of Neruda? But it's a film with a poet in it as opposed to film about one.
That's my vote for it. If I come across any others in my mind, I'll let you know. :)
Deemi, you're alive!
ReplyDeleteI struggled with this - are there really 'a number'? I suspect its a low one.
Anyway, I enjoyed Andy Garcia in 'The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca'. Not great, but good.
I recommend a film about a poem, -L'Amour par Terre- by Jacques Rivette, which, in its free-wheeling improvised two-and-a-half hour way is based on a sonnet by Verlaine. And stars Jane Birkin and Geraldine Chaplin. Worth a look.
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