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The Libertine (2004)

★ 5.9 · 482 ratings on TMDB

He didn't resist temptation. He pursued it.

The Libertine poster★ 5.9

The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn posthumous critical acclaim for his life's work.

DirectorLaurence Dunmore
CastFrancesca Annis, John Malkovich, Johnny Depp, Johnny Vegas, Paul Ritter, Richard Coyle
GenresDrama, Romance
The emergence reading

The Libertine keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E12 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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