Pandaemonium (2000)

Director:

Julien Temple

Writer:

Frank Cottrell Boyce (written by)

Release Date:

18 April 2001 (France)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Friendship and betrayal between two poets during the French Revolution. |

Plot Keywords:

Celebrity | Creative Process | Groundbreaking | Opium | Visionary

Awards:

2 wins & 1 nomination

Cast

Linus Roache	...	Samuel Coleridge
John Hannah	...	William Wordsworth
Samantha Morton	...	Sara Coleridge
Emily Woof	...	Dorothy Wordsworth
Emma Fielding	...	Mary Wordsworth
Andy Serkis	...	John Thelwall
Samuel West	...	Robert Southey
Michael N. Harbour	...	Walsh (as Michael Harbour)
William Scott-Masson	...	Tom Poole
Clive Merrison	...	Dr. Gillman
Dexter Fletcher	...	Humphry Davy
Guy Lankester	...	Lord Byron
Andrea Lowe	...	Edith Southey
Jacqueline Defferary	...	Miss Holland
Andy de la Tour	...	Andrew Crosse

Also Known As:

Pandemonium (France) [fr]

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for drug content.

Runtime:

124 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Iceland:LH | France:U | UK:12 | USA:PG-13 | Singapore:PG | Australia:M | Canada:PG

Filming Locations:

Charlestown, Cornwall, England, UK

Company:

Arts Council of England

Goofs:

Continuity: When William and Dorothy Wordsworth arrive at Coleridge's cottage and they go in search of Sarah Coleridge, the baby, Hartley is sitting on Sarah's lap with bare feet. When Sam introduces the Wordsworths to the baby a second later, he is wearing red boots/booties.

Quotes:

William Wordsworth: I wandered lonely as a cow...
Dorothy Wordsworth: Perhaps "cloud" would be better, William.

I am without words...

The DVD came to a full stop. I went and found THE poem, Kubla Khan, went back to my television, and watched Pandaemonium again. As I am writing this, I have just finished watching for the second time. This movie has changed the way I experience language... As Dorothy said to Sam; "You are writing about things I have thought about" (something close to that, i'll have to watch again). This movie expresses the power of the word. It's an unbleilevebly tight script.

As English is my secong language, my lingustic instincts never allowed me to understand poetry. Or so I thought. Watching this - just watching! how passive- I have experience something so powerful, so incompaassing. I first picked it up for John Hannah (because of him, this french girl's developed a fetish for scothish accents)but the actors are all so perfect.... without having that horrible perfect thing actors can sometimes have. (I just split an infinitive) I am blown away. see, when you learn a new language such as I have when I was about 15, you learn a new set of self-expression rules; you can actually express things that cannot be express any other way. and you can even start to FEEL your native language doesn't permit you to. (I just ended a sentence with a preposition) same goes the other way around. and this movie, has made me understand what new thing can be expressed. merci

Valery P. from Montreal