The improbable life of poet Arthur Rimbaud unfolds with all the shock and playfulness of his poetry.
"The only way to keep up with Rimbaud is to be as playful and as inventive as Rimbaud. As he sought to create new flowers, new stars, new flesh, new languages, we have done the same." —Patrick Wang
TRT: 175 min
In person: Patrick Wang
"Wonderful and fascinating... the best three-hour, one-man biopic you’ll see this year." —Siddhant Adlakha, Variety
"It’s its own thing, stem to stern, and gloriously so — a summative work by a genuine artist that rewired my every sense and synapse." —Keith Uhlich, All Parentheses
"[A. Rimbaud's] focus on performance, within these sparse elements, creates an atmosphere the medium rarely captures, feeling like an otherworldly yet profoundly human transmission." —Christopher Bell, Screen Slate
"Patrick Wang has long been one of American cinema’s most prodigious and least categorizable independents: a filmmaker interested in the teeming ensemble and a philosophical inquirer who seeks fresh forms with every new venture." —Carlos Valladares, BOMB
"Utterly original... A film that grapples with the poetic form: not the kind that forces the viewer to extract a vague revelation from meandering nature shots, but one that emulates the succinct arrangement of words that give structure to life’s wonders." —Jawni Han, Reverse Shot
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