Originally produced as a motion picture in 1995.

Special features: Theatrical trailer; Cast and crew filmographies.

Music by Jan A.P. Kaczmarek ; editor, Isabel Lorente ; production designer, Dan Weil ; costume designer, Pierre-Yves Gayraud ; sound, Michel Boulen, Laurent Quaglio, François Groult ; co-producers, Philip Hinchcliffe and Cat Villiers.

Leonardo DiCaprio, David Thewlis, Romane Bohringer, Dominique Blanc.

In September 1871, Paul Verlaine, a poet, young but already established in Paris, received a letter from the provinces containing eight extraordinary poems by one Arthur Rimbaud. He wrote back at once, saying: "My dear great soul, come to us, you are summoned, you are expected." What follows is their story directly taken from their letters and poetry. While Verlaine was a great poet, Rimbaud was a genius, a revolutionary. His poems from age sixteen to the age of nineteen forever changed the face of modern poetry. Together, these two men feed each other's insatiable hunger for life and love, trying desperately to straddle the lines between knowledge and self-destruction, creativity and delusion.

Rated R.

DVD; region 1, NTSC; widescreen (1.85:1) presentation, fullscreen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby digital stereo. surround.

In English with optional English subtitles; Closed captioned.