The Libertine
114 minutes,
UK (2004), 18
Johnny Depp plays Restoration writer and rogue the Earl of Rochester. Commercial director Laurence Dunmore's feature debut is a very grown-up biopic
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The Libertine: John Wilmot, the second Earl of Rochester, was a poet, playwright and rebel whose appetite for wine and women scandalised Restoration England. In Laurence Dunmore's The Libertine, Johnny Depp gives a stunning performance as a man who does not feel alive unless he exceeds every limit.
"You will not like me," Rochester promises in his prologue, laying down a challenge...
Read the The Libertine full review"You will not like me," Rochester promises in his prologue, laying down a challenge...


