Étienne Arnaud and Louis Feuillade are credited as co-directors of this movie about the poet. Chenier was a Greek who moved to Paris, became associated with the nobility, decided on a career as a poet, and had his head chopped off by the guillotine. This movie would have you believe that he spent his time utterly disinterested in the events going on in France at the time. In actual fact, although his early work was in the ancien regime style of writing about Greek gods and heroes, he soon was publishing stuff about the Revolution, usually couched as satires, in JOURNAL DE PARIS.
Satire may be amusing when you're in charge and railing against the radicals, but when you're making fun of the people in charge and they're chopping off heads, I think it ill-advised. His head was chopped off on July 25, 1794 for "crimes against the state" when he was 31. To complete his humiliation, Umberto Giordano wrote an opera about him.