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).
Much of the film was shot on location on and around the Quantock Hills in Somerset.
Plot The fictionalized friendship of two Romantic era poets, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth.
Cast 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
Release dates 15 September 2000, Toronto International Film Festival (Premiere) 31 January 2001, Gothenburg Film Festival 14 September 2001, United Kingdom 23 October 2001, Bergen International Film Festival 14 July 2005, Australia
Accolades Award Category Recipients and nominees Outcome British Independent Film Award Best Actress Samantha Morton Emden International Film Festival Emden Film Award Julien Temple Evening Standard British Film Awards Best Actor Linus Roache
Critical reception The Guardian, "It's rattling good stuff. There's just one small objection. None of it ever happened. This is fantasy literary history.”
Variety, "Julien Temple's "Pandaemonium" labors hard to present the leading lights of late 18th-century English poetry as up-to-the-moment sexy bohos."
References
External links
Pandaemonium at Box Office Mojo at BBFC
The Guardian review New York Times review