A young man travels with his French girlfriend to Ethiopia. Whilst there he discovers a house in which the French poet Rimbaud once lived and he becomes obsessed with finding out more information about him.
Acting
Tim Roth at his most unhinged and magnetic.
Cinematography
Ethiopia shot like a fever dream you can't wake from.
Director
Sabine Prenczina
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Benjamin Zephaniah appears as Moses years before becoming one of Britain's most celebrated dub poets.
The film captures a specific moment of late-80s European art cinema grappling with postcolonial guilt through aestheticized poverty — deeply uncomfortable in retrospect.
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