It is a film maudit not because it suggests a filmmaker struggling with his material, but because the film falls short of the mark even while it remains so close to Bergman's other work. (reverseshot.org)
The grown - up Mr. Cave belongs to rock's poète maudit tradition of Jim Morrison, Lou Reed and Leonard Cohen. (nytimes.com)
In no small part because of Verlaine's own harrowing life, the meaning of maudit has come to include not only the troubles such poets suffer from society but also the troubles nature inflicts on them and the ones they inflict on themselves, body and soul. (firstthings.com)