Les fleurs du mal
Charles Baudelaire was one of the giants of 19th-century French poetry, and he earned his position among that nation's luminaries through the poems in one slim volume, entitled Les Fleurs du Mal (Flowers of Evil). A perfectionist to the extreme, he struggled with every word of those few poems for many years before he consented to see them published. When he did, six of them were condemned by the state censors as obscene. It was surely a powerful blow to him to have such a significant part of his life's work so rudely suppressed. This courtroom drama follows him at the 1857 trial at which he defended his works. The filmmaker has chosen to symbolically re-enact certain poems about the love of a woman as they are being read for the court. It is easy to imagine that, as was certainly the case for the trial of Oscar Wilde in England, this courtroom trial was a form of punishment for his publicly dissolute lifestyle.
Year: 1991
Studio: Canal+, Francis Dreyfus Musique
Director: Jean-Pierre Rawson
Cast: Antoine Duléry, Jean-Marie Lemaire, Patrice-Flora Praxo, Marianne Assouline, Claude Aufaure, Jean-Claude Bolle-Reddat
Crew: Jean-Pierre Rawson (Writer), Elso Roque (Director of Photography), Jacqueline Thiédot (Editor), Jean-Noël Chaleat (Original Music Composer), Pierre Duquesne (Production Design), Charles Baudelaire (Book)
Runtime: 85 minutes
Release: Nov 13, 1991
IMDb: 9.00/10 by 1 users
Popularity: 0
Country: France
Language: Français
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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