Pandaemonium (film)

This article is about the 2000 film. For films with a similar title, see Pandemonium (disambiguation).

Pandaemonium
Directed by	Julien Temple
Written by	Frank Cottrell Boyce
Produced by	Nick O'Hagan
Starring	Linus Roache John Hannah Samantha Morton
Cinematography	John Lynch
Edited by	Niven Howie
Music by	Dario Marianelli
Distributed by	Optimum Releasing
Release dates	15 September 2000 (2000-09-15) (Toronto Film Festival) 14 September 2001 (2001-09-14) (United Kingdom)
Running time	125 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Budget	$15 million
Box office	$17,113

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	Nominated
Emden International Film Festival	Emden Film Award	Julien Temple	Won
Evening Standard British Film Awards	Best Actor	Linus Roache	Won

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."

External links

• Pandaemonium at IMDb
• Pandaemonium at Box Office Mojo
• Pandaemonium^{[link removed]} at BBFC
• Pandaemonium at Rotten Tomatoes
• The Guardian review
• New York Times review