![]() ![]() ![]() Maybe it's a literary reference I've missed. I appreciate Temple ( The Filth and the Fury) is trying to match Coleridge's blustering poetry, but even before I entered the cinema, I was wondering what the extra "a" in "pandemonium" portended. Unfortunately, Temple's direction is so noisy it's hard to hear the poetry. There are some lovely scenes when the friends are experimenting with drugs, and hearing the poems of Coleridge recited is a pleasure. William Wordsworths autobiographical poem The. However, the characters of the poets and of Dorothy are charming, and their relationships, which are never satisfactorily explored, intriguing. Get and read thousands of movies, tv shows, books, audiobooks, FLAC music, comics. (This can be justified as form following drug-befuddled content, but it doesn't make for satisfying viewing.) The climax is so overwrought it looks like comedy, and the licence taken with history would send literary academics running to their computers to post dismayed opinion pieces on obscure websites. ![]() It provides no markers as to how fast or slow time is passing. The script by Frank Cottrell Boyce, who wrote Hilary and Jackie and 24 Hour Party People, is dislocated and crowded with implausibilities. Bit by bit, Wordsworth is consumed by his jealousy of Coleridge. Wordsworth, who says no to hard drugs, is blocked and fails to write his poem about the economic importance of England's fisheries. That night, Coleridge takes laudanum (the literary laxative) and disgorges The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Coleridge meets an old fisherman whom we are to understand is the Common Man, because he's gnarled, immensely wise and looks off into the middle distance as he speaks in rough tones. When Coleridge and Wordsworth decide to write a book of poems together, they visit the seaside for inspiration. Coleridge is distributing a covert political magazine called The Watchman and brings Wordsworth into the group.Ĭoleridge is married to a long-suffering Sara (Samantha Morton) while Wordsworth's closest, perhaps incestuous, relationship is with his clever sister, Dorothy (Emily Woof). The director, Julien Temple, then flashes back to Coleridge and Wordsworth meeting, and their developing friendship. Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher. The film starts later in Coleridge's life, when the drug-addled poet is attending a party given by his saturnine poet friend William Wordsworth (John Hannah), the daffodil guy. To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. Linus Roache plays the idealistic, energetic Coleridge. ![]()
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