Arthur Rimbaud documentary

Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (20 October 1854 - 10 November 1891) was a French poet known for his transgressive and surreal themes, and his influence on modern literature and arts, prefiguring surrealism. Born in Charleville, he started writing at a very young age and excelled as a student, but abandoned his formal education in his teenage years to run away from home to Paris amidst the Franco-Prussian War. During his late adolescence and early adulthood he produced the bulk of his literary output, then completely stopped writing literature at age 20, after assembling his last major work, Illuminations.
Arthur Rimbaud documentary
2005

[@hotwings757]

Best documentary I’ve ever seen on him. I especially LOVE the part that says he realized he could use poetry as a weapon, for which to attack, and to defend himself He wields language within poetry to pillage all falsehoods and everyone that he denounces. Incredible!

[@hotwings757]

This is SUCH AN INCREDIBLE DOCUMMENTARY!!! It is SO WELL WRITTEN! So many memorable quotes!!! And so accurate. And the narrator’s accent is PERFECT, I love how he says the work “Poets”

[@ljones7293]

Brilliant poet, brilliant human, and a brilliant documentary. Thank you.

[@harperwelch5147]

Powerful story unfamiliar to me. Compelling. So hopeful and then so sad, his life. Glad though to have encountered this posting.

[@user-kz5gt3wr4q]

I'm surprised that it's just thousand of watches of these video. Arthur is really a awesome guy. Cheers from snowy bloody mother Russia, folks!

[@luispedrokraemer9060]

Yeah Bro, its Sad that people don't talk about him that much nowadays... My favorite poet. Cheers from Brazil!

[@baronsaturday9529]

Yeah, Rimbaud's a fenomenal rebel/poet! Hi from Holland :) 8.722 now, slowly but surely.....

[@davidallen346]

I remember dropping LSD and watching Lenoardo DeCaprio as Arthur Rimbaud bio pic movie in the theater

[@JSTNtheWZRD]

Yes. And what's so bloody about it? Hellooo from Chicago

[@altagraciaadames3483]

The few the proud the Rimbaudians Well I'm listening 🎶 to Jim Morrison, and he was a big fan, City of night baby.

[@jeremyhennessee6604]

Ty so MUCH for this. I will share it with everyone I know. I'm baffled by the lack of coverage on RIMBAUD. On youtube.

[@AuthorDocumentaries]

You're welcome! I know, right? It's a crime. I'll share it widely, too.

[@jeremyhennessee6604]

@@AuthorDocumentaries good deal sir (or ma'am respectively) he was one of my greatest inspirations as a writer. Although I use rhyme schemes in some of my work, the Modernist/blank verse prose I do is a direct expression of his influence.

[@AuthorDocumentaries]

​@@jeremyhennessee6604 Sir is right. That's really cool. If you feel the urge, post a sample under the vid for the audience! I'm drawing from his work to use for my novel. I'm on a French symbolist streak. In any event, good to hear from a fellow Rimbaud fan.

[@harryevans1786]

It is about time they did a decent documentary on Rimbaud

[@kimmccabe1422]

He influenced me as a poet-all his friends! Later works..free of mother, less French and syrupy, more universal. War helped I'm sure. Bring sweet poetry back!

[@JimOverbeckgenius]

In 1960 I spent a couple of wasted days searching for where Rimbaud lived in Reading Berks - I failed, but many years later saw the place when derelict in a documentary, which said Verlaine was with him. There are recently-discovered photos of him among the Communards.

[@andyhornhornhorn]

What an interesting character.

[@alannothnagle]

Truly excellent and endlessly illuminating. Thank-you!!

[@JimOverbeckgenius]

I owned an original 19th century drawing of Rimbaud by a pupil of Fantin-Latour, which my mother burned. Its loss added more shit to my life.

[@David-og7di]

That is the baddest news I have heard in a year.

[@alinapopescu872]

What a glorious documentary!

[@sabrasalvia7720]

Thank you!

[@kevinogracia1615]

Well done documentary. I've read Rimbaud for over forty years and recently I've been thinking that his works are from a meandering adolescent unmatured mind. Christ, I still have my early writings from fifty years ago and I gotta say their only in english. Ce la vie.

[@danvincent2600]

Well it's good to know the French to study un saison dans enfer oui?

[@charleskristiansson1296]

What a life!!!! So intense! So well lived...

[@seagullpoet]

He died somewhat young…

[@bingo4519]

And filled with intense suffering.

[@shaunthepostman]

Wow, wonderful to see something on Rimbaud in English! Do you happen to have anything similar on Baudelaire and Mallarmé?

Not wonderful. They can't even say 'Rimbaud' correctly...

[@janscott602]

Really great! I love this treatment.

[@Ma_rkw589]

hilarious interviews with the french public. the english translator puts some good emotion in

[@milouda78]

Thank you for everything 👸 ✨️ 🙌 🙏

[@sidar9925]

thanx much 🙏

[@MohamedYasser-hp8kc]

love from Egypt! kindly republish Kafka's episode. ❤❤

[@sdowler96]

thank you

[@johnjosmith42]

thanks for this.

[@miroslavcervenka3283]

The life of a poet: a truly dammed one. A fine suffering in the line of God’s own. A great example of attempting a geographical cure, and not finding it. But, what a magnificent attempt.

[@JSTNtheWZRD]

Being an artist is no picnic either

[@JSTNtheWZRD]

@@bingo4519 I have never considered myself a poet, more of an artist with words when I do use words. Since poetics has no rules then perhaps you are correct...

[@altagraciaadames3483]

Well said.

[@nihilioellipsis]

@@JSTNtheWZRD why do you think poetics has no rules? do you mean because no one is socially force to write in a certain way? I don't understand the seeming preoccupation with ignoring or throwing rules away on principle,

[@JSTNtheWZRD]

@@nihilioellipsis poetry never had rules to begin with, I believe free art must be free, and critiqued based on mood, not content. Both E.E. Cummings and Charlie Chaplin were terrible authors, as far as their autobiographies, but great artists.... I know it doesn't make sense, but I'm an artist, what do I know. Poetry like art in my humble opinion must be about the big picture and sod the details. And being an artisan isn't the same but could have the same reaction as a craft also produces a mood, which is why I cannot tolerate the surrealist movement of creating certain symbols to be exclusive only to their group, is a play on very worldly politics and fraternity - not modern surrealists, the first and manifestoed unreasonable people, that made Dalí more Dada as he left them to become the true and surreal model for the future of it. I don't know if you know about this stuff. For instance Pesoa would write like with a child's enthusiasm, and if you didn't see this you might misunderstand his poetry, but when you do it unfolds into a magical world... myself, I have looked at Pound every which way and love it, and understand some of it, but not all of it, haha. Does this jumble of thoughts make any sense to you? I might not have made sense, and if I didn't forgive me, please. JM

[@brannonmcclure6970]

I’m just becoming aware of him and his work.

[@clairau]

Originaly this very interesting and entertaining documentary is in French for Francophone viewers. I think the conceptors of it are Belgians (Wallons). It is, in my opinion, as good as it gets. Acute and informative yet not boring or scholarly pompous. It was just a brilliant idea to keep the original version by simply adding translation for anglophone readers.

[@philfletcher3434]

Thank heaven they did translate most of it into English because my eyesight is too poor to read subtitles; especially the ones used here.

[@broken1394]

Rimbaud is the greatest.

[@steveculbert4039]

I love this video. I have translated all of ILLUMINATIONS. I know Rimbaud.

[@marclayne9261]

I have 1st Edition, of, Enid Starkie, biography of, Arthur Rimbaud.......1961...Starkie was a Professor, at University of Washington....Seattle...Best documentary of Arthur Rimbaud....

[@lucycarlos4923]

Great Doc.

[@alexare7948]

Thisdoc has so many errors. At 13:30, rimbaud and verlaine were last ditch efforts, they were not the first choices by the painter and rimbaud was said to have been seen as "dirty" and "unkempt".

[@ThomasSarantos]

It also says there are no photos of his parents, but there's at least one I've seen of his mother.

[@seagullpoet]

Kerouac never recklessly traveled about like Rimbaud.

[@markcarey67]

And Rimbaud travelled even more recklessly after he stopped writing entirely

[@johna6291]

His “disordering of all the senses” became the marching orders for so much of later 20th Century poetry, as well as musical lyricism of that century..

[@El_Hicks]

Jim

[@pleasegetalife_whatswrongwu]

@@El_Hicks jack

[@sawdust34]

W

[@saulbennett4677]

Is there any evidence that Rimbaud lived in Scarborough? I know he mentioned it in a poem but other biographies dispute it.

[@PuffPets]

Too bad for the wood that finds out it's a violin ❤

[@sapphohanafy5840]

11:11 please, if possible, tell me where can i find Rimbauds letter exactly in this marvelous translation?

[@sapphohanafy5840]

and if possible also a link to the original latter. Would appreciate it!

[@liltick102]

A time of the assassins: a study of arthur rimbaud (henry miller) introduced me to his work- highly recommend.

[@brannonmcclure6970]

I’m just now becoming familiar with this man. I’m not well read. I am an educated scientist. An artist by nature.

[@stevecowen5164]

Rimbaud's work and approach sharpened and focused arguably the best poet in America: Bob Dylan.

[@baronsaturday9529]

And lots of great beat writers, & Jim Morrison and Patti Smith, both great poets who were also inspired by Rimbaud. (And by the beats...)

[@alexanderdegothia]

Morrison is the best poet of America

[@christophermorgan3261]

There's a difference between song lyrics and poetry.

[@yourmother2739]

@@baronsaturday9529 Gregory Corso

[@nickl9317]

What a sad statement. If that’s the best America has to offer or compare to Rimbaud… that’s incredibly sad. Although these people are talented in their fields they’re not even close to Rimbaud. Even among french poets he stands out-and french poets are quite something. Nerval, Baudelaire, Apollinaire… Rimbaud basically quit poetry before he was 20. Yet his style was so accomplished it can only be called genius-in the actual sense of the word.

[@brannonmcclure6970]

I love what Nietchie said about culture; regarding the French! It was clarified after hearing memoirs by Rose Franklin about things French. It has even been realized in my own birth and ancestry. French is the only culture.

[@alcidebava1854]

Molto bello ...

[@jeremyhennessee6604]

Every other soul. (Who loves you.) +++++++++++++ She looked pretty as She sat there pickin bullets out of the moon I'd just Shot down for her. "Oh, Can't you put it back?!" She Asked ... half weeping through an Uncertain Smile. I don't know my Love, But I'll try... (I said) Even if it takes Forever, and I have to rent out My Place in the sky To Every other soul... (Who loves you.) J.stephen.h

[@danielalexandermclachlanga3781]

a hawk feather leads with dizzy feet despair spits over tha horror of a hwy describe ? tears curl with a floating away horizons arrive with an aching silence love

[@veritas.vitriol1328]

Will you be doing a piece on Oscar Wilde?

[@AuthorDocumentaries]

You know what? I do have something on Wilde. I'll post it in the coming week

[@mariopinot9884]

Nice

[@ursalaminor8457]

The subtitles need subtitles .. they’re impossible to read!

[@AX1A]

Hi Patti. I love you. And Robert too.

[@junettegabatinrimbaud5416]

Nice😀

[@mariejolie2925]

❤

[@markrowe5992]

the Illuminations of an immortal.

[@JSTNtheWZRD]

0:47 how did he get about, on his legs

[@jeremyhennessee6604]

The Absurd Beauty in A Suicidal Smile +++++++++++++ Oh love,... do you Hate Me? Because I see Absurd Beauty In A Suicidal Smile! I've just been .. feeling Odd Lately. ( and havent believed in Goodness for a while.) I Saw You Yesterday.. walkin Down By The Crimson Sea, (where we used to Pray.) it'll likely become Another Nightmare Memory! (that no amount of Booze can wash away.) Oh Love do You Hate Me? Because I Chose to Stick Around and Tough shit Out? Hoping there is Beauty Left to See!! (Regardless that My Heart is Full Of Doubt.) + When Nights Become a Tragic song, (and Darkness Falls) I will Try my Damndest To Be Strong, but when I hear Your Laughter Down the Halls, I KNOW.. that it probably won't be Long...!!! (before I Wear Suicidal Smile.) J.Stephen.H.

[@danielalexandermclachlanga3781]

tha rhythm of Yer poem would work as lyrics , cheers Man

[@jeremyhennessee6604]

@@danielalexandermclachlanga3781 ty very much Daniel, my sincerest gratitude. I often compose with musical lyricism in mind. I have a deep love for nearly all styles and generations of poetry though. Words can save, or damn. I believe. Cheers man.

[@brannonmcclure6970]

I am only now aware of Rimbaud.🧑‍🎨♾️🎭

[@MalatiMandal-fh3qw]

You are not alone Came by reading "asleep in the valley"

[@artflix500]

​@@MalatiMandal-fh3qw🎉

[@jeremyhennessee6604]

wHeN LiLLiTh wEpT. ___________ When LilliTh wepT Dead Stars Bled Out; (falling to NeTher ReGiOnS DowN Below.) and lefT A bRuIsE on HeAvEnS mOuTh! (Some Angels even DiEd oF SoRRoW.) + God wasn't half-so-happy then, but understood because he "Knew" that Beauty is Destroyed by Men! (Who Kill For Lies They Think Are True.) + On Picture Days, (when All Seems Fake.) She sits Alone Beside The Fire; HoPiNg that Her MiNd won'T BrEaK, as did Her Heart. (by Dark Desire.) + When Lillith Weeps My Soul Bleeds Out, (WaTeriNg tWiLiGhT fLoWeRs DoWn bElOw.) and Leaves A Bruise On HeaVens MouTh! (which could still Be SMilinG By TomoRRoW.) J.Stephen.h.

[@dustykashifeathers858]

Unfortunately no documentary could ever do Rimbaud any justice, including this one, unless their done by a Henry Miller of some sort.

[@MalatiMandal-fh3qw]

Love from India

[@jeremyhennessee6604]

Alright. I'll quit. I hope that three was not too many. I don't want to flood your comments.

[@AuthorDocumentaries]

No, it was perfect. Great imagery and storytelling. I can sense Rimbaud in there. Well done.

[@DaveSCameron]

Ghetto Defendant - The Clash, Combat Rock 1983. #Charleville

[@awalajnef7063]

Le poète qui n'aime pas s'arrêter

[@imorrison1585]

How can I find the original French version? This one is really annoying!!!

[@etow8034]

Moses and the Ten Commandments in contemporary life !

[@hyoroemonmeto6874]

Vampire Bund send me here

[@caroledrury1411]

I love Arthur Rimbaud. Does anyone know why his French provincial family named him with an an English first name?

[@user-wp1xx7cp9u]

触れた瞬間に汚れるをやっていってもしょうがない。

[@ranpomydearest]

Bsd fans 🤝 literary fans

[@user-wp1xx7cp9u]

何が違うんでしょうねぇー、皆。何が違うんでしょうね、皆。何故皆違うんでしょうね。何故皆同じなんでしょうね。

[@user-wp1xx7cp9u]

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[@user-wp1xx7cp9u]

第二章、大きな事を、壊しませんオシッコにも重さがあるのです。

[@mollkatless]

Why do the French, and with the exception of the Brits, the entire rest of the planet pronounce the poet's last name as; RIMbo but the Brits say; RAMbo? The entire country gets such a simple vowel recognition test wrong, why?

[@johnmorrissey46]

I’m pretty sure the French say Rambo or chhhhambo

[@Johnconno]

'Do you remember him? Of course, he was a complete Bastard.'

[@cesareantinellipickinup]

Impensabile, un documento su Rimbaud in inglese, peggio di vecchioni, gli inglesi di Rimbaud non capiscono un cazzo

[@jackwild8019]

Arthur Rimbaud.....the vagabond poet beloved by Jim Morrison 🎆

[@watching7721]

Bob Dylan and Patti Smith too

[@denise7001]

Love the writer bios you’ve accumulated in one channel. But where is Jules Verne? Sci-fi is huge now and he was a major player in getting that momentum going ;)

[@yellowbelliedslider6719]

I knew he was fruity, thnx for uploading!

[@jamesmiller4184]

Ah! We are relieved that you did. GOOD for you!

[@user-wp1xx7cp9u]

さっぶー。

[@tinofiniquity6083]

Rimbaud? First Blood was good but the sequels were rubbish…

[@OliSpleen]

I don't know if you knew but Rambo was actually named after Rimbaud.

[@user-wp1xx7cp9u]

面倒臭い。惨め。楽。とても良いものに出会ったではないか！

[@doreekaplan2589]

All the French is great but American s are not bilingual

[@pedrolourenco1606]

All of the people reading on this doc know nothing about Rimbaud!

[@GeorgeLuciano9860]

😂😂😂😂

[@dolorespaljus8442]

He was loved by 13-year-olds. Best to move on to someone else

[@FACEGRINDproductions]

Like?

[@dolorespaljus8442]

@@FACEGRINDproductions Milton, Blake, Ovid, Homer, Dante, Lawrence

[@jeanf8998]

Insanity romantized

[@thatpak]

barbarian tribes? savage hordes?

[@christophermorgan3261]

Very bad doc. One has an impression from all the sketches that he was a painter. All the people reading him only shows he is on the European syllabus.

[@mosart7025]

Wow. What a depressing, desperate life. How much worse could it have been if he had stayed home, finished school, and gotten a real job? It's not like all that traveling and suffering aided his poetry. Sounds like he didn't write any after he really started globe trotting, by himself.

[@FACEGRINDproductions]

If he had, then you likely wouldn't have had this video to post such a deeply poignant comment on.

[@mosart7025]

@@FACEGRINDproductions Ah ha! You make a valid point!

[@jurisecurity]

Dull and boring!!!!

[@irfanimp]

Where does this French arrogance come from? As for Rimbaud, was it appropriate for a poet to sell slaves?

[@sitacmexico]

What a poor and demeaning portrait of Rimbaud. Please delete!