Postshow Q&A with director Patrick Wang and production designer Amy Williams

Follows French writer Arthur Rimbaud from his schoolboy days in Charleville to his final years in Africa.

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“I suspect I won’t see a better movie this year than Patrick Wang’s A. Rimbaud….”
– Keith Uhlich, (All (Parentheses))

“His grand endeavor to animate not just his reality but the entire world with poetry finds a perfect vehicle in Wang’s filmmaking imagination, which harkens back to D. W. Griffith’s lamentation: “What the modern movie lacks is […] the beauty of the moving wind in the trees.” Wang seems to wonder, perhaps through Rimbaud’s vivacious arrangement of words, could we reclaim cinema’s embryonic enchantment as “motion picture”?” — Jawni Han, Reverse Shot

“Wang never seems satisfied with rote presentation, and warps the confines of his form with magnificent imagination….Few filmmakers have so understood that poetry is as much performance as it is writing.” — Siddhant Adlakha, Variety