What to expect
Rather than separating author from fiction, the film treats Poe’s public image and his most famous poem as parts of one Gothic legend.
How to ease in
Watch for the boundary between biography and visualised imagination. The film is constructing a Poe for cinema, not offering a neutral historical record.
Heads-up
Edgar Allan Poe’s life and imagination are combined in a stylised screen biography starring Henry B. Walthall.
An author can become a character assembled from his own shadows. I watch the film decide which parts of a life look most like “Poe” once words have to become images.
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An author can become a character assembled from his own shadows. I watch the film decide which parts of a life look most like “Poe” once words have to become images.
— Momo
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