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Illuminations By Jawni Han A. Rimbaud Dir. Patrick Wang, U.S., self-distributed “[R]eality was too prickly for my lavish personality.” So begins Arthur Rimbaud’s poem “Bottom” (exquisitely translated into English by poet John Ashbery). Aside from being a killer opening line, the quote encapsulates his solitude as an artist at odds with the world that remained indifferent to his poetic vision. Now a towering literary figure who has influenced countless cultural icons, from Samuel Beckett to Re...