Arthur Rimbaud’s poem from “Illuminations” has become the pretext for a film in which the resources of cinematographic technique and the illustrations proposed by Laure Garcin attempt to establish correspondences between the poetic images evoked by Arthur Rimbaud’s text and the plastic forms suggested to the imagination. In this poem, which has the privilege of combining without contradiction the feeling of tragedy with that of irony, Rimbaud’s aesthetic, which was based on the search for unity through discontinuity and the ebb and flow of clashing images, appears more expressive and more sensitive.