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Les fleurs du mal (1991)

ALL 11/13/1991 (fr) Drama, History 85 Min
  • Release
    11/13/1991
  • Production
    Canal+, Francis Dreyfus Musique
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  • Original title
    Les fleurs du mal
  • Original language
    fr
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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Overview

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.

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  1. Antoine Duléry

    Baudelaire

  2. Jean-Marie Lemaire

    Procureur Pinard

  3. Patrice-Flora Praxo

    Jeanne Duval

  4. Marianne Assouline

    Mme Sabatier

  5. Claude Aufaure

    Abbé Richard

  6. Jean-Claude Bolle-Reddat

    Boissard

  7. Yan Brian

    Bourdin

  8. Annick Christiaens

    Escrimeuse

  9. Paulo Matos

    Avocat

  10. Jean-Pierre Mangeot

    Delacroix

  11. Carloto Cotta

    Young Baudelaire

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Casts : 11 , Crews : 7

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Les fleurs du mal (1991) 85 Min

ALL 11/13/1991 (fr)
Drama, History
  • Release 11/13/1991
  • Production
    Canal+, Francis Dreyfus Musique
  • Original title Les fleurs du mal
  • fr
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

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.

  1. Jean-Pierre Rawson

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Jacqueline Thiédot

    Editor

  4. Producer



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