If this movie is going to work, the viewer much have some interest or regard for one or the other of the main characters. It's a stretch but I can buy David Thewlis if I have to. His is not a likeable character, but if we were mesmerized by the same light he was, we might have some sympathy for him. But no. Leonardo is no light. He is just not it, never could be, by no stretch, can't buy it, ever. It's like Keanu Reeves in Much Ado About Nothing.
That is the main thing wrong with this movie. All the other problems would fade if you had the right guy playing Rimbaud and it might even be a pretty good movie, in a way. As it is, it's just annoying people doing annoying things.
That is the main thing wrong with this movie. All the other problems would fade if you had the right guy playing Rimbaud and it might even be a pretty good movie, in a way. As it is, it's just annoying people doing annoying things.