ARTHUR RIMBAUD, CHYPRE POSTE RESTANTE

Synopsis:
Shoot in the Ardennes, Cyprus, Alexandria, the Mediterranean coast and Mount Troodos, this film recreates the travel of Arthur Rimbaud at a crucial moment in his life, when he decided to give up literature to join working society and make himself more useful. The soundtrack,composed of letters Rimbaud wrote home from Cyprus, provides the film first narrative structure.
Landscapes of the past and present, the present-day testimonies of poets and
French and Chypriot historians and archives, provide invaluable elements that allow us to analyze this little-known episode in the life of the author of A season In Hell and evaluate the place he continues to occupy in the collective imagination of the island.

Among those interviewed : Jean-Luc Steinmetz, poet and Rimbaud’s biograph, Claude Jeancolas, writer and Rimbaud’s biograph, Kifle Selassie, ethiopian poet, Geroges Lillikas, Sylvain Beraud, Yiannis Ioannou, Akis Zambartas.

Broadcast:
CYCL
Canal France International

Festivals:
FIPA 2006 Situations de la création française