Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud
Filmfest 2012
USA 1985
Original version
(Original: English)
Director: Todd Haynes
Section: Retrospective - Todd Haynes
A free rendering of the passionate relationship between Rimbaud and Verlaine. Combining elements of avant-garde and classicism ... an iconoclastic, yet respectful film. Sarajevo Film Festival
Certainly this is a rough work, amateurish in certain aesthetic and technical respects, yet Haynes’ confidence in his storytelling and subject comes across so strongly that the shortcomings become part of the charm.
Keith Uhlich, Senses of Cinema, 19 July 2002
Credits
Producer: Cynthia Schneider
Director: Todd Haynes