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Pandaemonium

EMAILPRINTUSA Films

Pandaemonium reviews
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Drama

Written by: Frank Cottrell Boyce

Directed by: Julien Temple

Release Date:
Theatrical: June 29, 2001
DVD: February 12, 2002

Running Time: 120 minutes, Color

Origin: UK

Summary

RATING: PG-13 for drug content

Starring Linus Roache, John Hannah, Samantha Morton, Emily Woof, and Emma Fielding

This historical, romantic drama chronicles the turbulent, creative relationship between two of history's most famous English poets -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Roache) and William Wordsworth (Hannah). (USA Films)

What The Critics Said

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90

New Times (L.A.) Gregory Weinkauf

Easily one of the finest and most sophisticated films of the year.

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83

Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

Pandaemonium goes a long way toward capturing the compelling delirium of opium among a crowd of freethinking British iconoclasts.

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80

The New York Times Lawrence Van Gelder

Literate and handsome.

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80

LA Weekly Paul Malcolm

Temple doesn't just highlight the contemporary relevance of Coleridge's liberated words and themes, he shows us how high they still soar.

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70

Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas

It's unfortunate and ironic that Temple risks so much so successfully in evoking an atmosphere of literary imagination as well as Coleridge's drug-induced fantasies only to conclude his film in a thud of fustian staginess.

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70

TV Guide Ken Fox

As a visual counterpart to some of the most sublime verse ever written, it's often thrilling.

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63

New York Daily News Jack Mathews

Treats the poets not as creative equals but as a groundbreaking genius and a jealous, vindictive hack. Wordsworth is Salieri to Coleridge's Mozart.

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50

Variety Dennis Harvey

Never quite dull, neither does it ever find a viable rhythm, narrative arc or crux of emotional engagement.

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40

Mr. Showbiz Michael Atkinson

Apart from the historical eminence of the poetry itself, Pandaemonium is about nothing much at all.

40

Village Voice Jessica Winter

The exposition is thick, the characterization choppy, the wigs terrible.

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38

New York Post Lou Lumenick

Pandaemonium plays like a bus-and-truck version of such Ken Russell's '60s classics as "The Music Lovers."

What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 9.0 (out of 10) based on 1 User Votes

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