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Pandaemonium is a 2000 film, directed by Julien Temple, screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce. It is based on the early lives of English poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, in particular their collaboration on the Lyrical Ballads (1798), and Coleridge's writing of Kubla Khan (completed in 1797, published in 1816).
Pandaemonium | |
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Directed by | Julien Temple |
Written by | Frank Cottrell Boyce |
Produced by | Nick O'Hagan |
Starring | Linus Roache John Hannah Samantha Morton |
Cinematography | John Lynch |
Edited by | Niven Howie |
Music by | Dario Marianelli |
Distributed by | Optimum Releasing |
Release dates |
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Running time | 125 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Budget | $15 million |
Box office | $17,113 |
Much of the film was shot on location on and around the Quantock Hills in Somerset.
Cast
edit- Linus Roache as Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- John Hannah as William Wordsworth
- Samantha Morton as Sara Fricker Coleridge (Coleridge's wife)
- Emily Woof as Dorothy Wordsworth
- Samuel West as Robert Southey
- Andy Serkis as John Thelwall
- Andrea Lowe as Edith Southey
- Clive Merrison as Dr. Gillman
Reception
editRelease dates
editCountry | Date |
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Canada |
15 September 2000 (Toronto International Film Festival) (Premiere) |
Sweden |
31 January 2001 (Gothenburg Film Festival) |
France |
18 April 2001 |
United States |
29 June 2001 |
United Kingdom |
14 September 2001 |
Norway |
23 October 2001 (Bergen International Film Festival) |
Australia |
14 July 2005 |
Accolades
editAward | Category | Recipients and nominees | Outcome |
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British Independent Film Award | Best Actress | Samantha Morton | Nominated |
Emden International Film Festival | Emden Film Award | Julien Temple | Won |
Evening Standard British Film Awards | Best Actor | Linus Roache | Won |
"It's rattling good stuff. There's just one small objection. None of it ever happened. This is fantasy literary history". John Sutherland.[1]
References
edit- ^ "Is Pandaemonium entertainment or historical travesty?". TheGuardian.com. 7 September 2001.