American micro-indie filmmaker Patrick Wang of 2011’s In the Family (read review), The Grief of Others (2015), A Bread Factory (2018) parts I and II, was working under the radar and his latest project – Variety have the full details on his next oeuvre – a unconventional biopic on Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891) – who was a French poet who dropped the written word to work as a trader and explorer in Africa. Actor Blake Draper toplines A.Rimbaud. Production just wrapped up in Winnipeg this week.
Hardball Entertainment’s Daryl Freimark, Thin Stuff Productions’ Fritzi Adelman and Evan Johnson (Rumours filmmaker) along with Wang produced the project.… Read the rest