Baudelaire: moderne et anti-moderne - Production & Contact Info (original) (raw)

As brilliant as he was detestable, obsessed with beauty, inventor of modern poetry, Charles Baudelaire abhorred his time. The poet was condemned for outrage against morality, and his life's work, "Les Fleurs du mal", was censored. Today, ...See moreAs brilliant as he was detestable, obsessed with beauty, inventor of modern poetry, Charles Baudelaire abhorred his time. The poet was condemned for outrage against morality, and his life's work, "Les Fleurs du mal", was censored. Today, if many artists appropriate the words of Baudelaire, the genius remains shrouded in a dark light. For the 200th anniversary of his birth, France, which likes to celebrate its great writers, has largely forgotten the most poisonous of them. "Le doc Stupéfiant" looks at this paradox, that of a modern reactionary, an odious sublime, a misunderstood genius.See less