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It’s one of the most romanticized love affairs in music history: dashing cross-dressing woman novelist George Sand becomes obsessed with, and then seduces, the sickly consumptive pianist-composer Frédéric Chopin. But how much of this story is real, and how much of it is just mythologizing?
The film's witty dialogue and superb cast, led by Judy Davis as the captivating George Sand, create a modern air within this period piece. The chemistry between Sand and the talented yet comically portrayed Chopin, played by Hugh Grant, adds depth to their unconventional romance.
Mar 2, 2022 · George Sand (born Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin-1804-1876), was one of the most popular writers of her era, respected and befriended by peers Honoré de Balzac, Victor Hugo, Gustave Flaubert, Ivan Turgenev, and Alfred de Musset (with whom she had an affair prior to Frédéric Chopin).
The reviews are harsh, except for one written by George Sand, who praises Chopin as a genius. Sand invites Chopin and Elsner to a reception hosted by the Duchess of Orléans, where Chopin's talent is acknowledged by Liszt and the attendees.
In a television series on the career of Sand, starring Rosemary Harris, it turned out that a message from Chopin on his death bed was withheld from Sand by her jealous daughter - a fact she did not learn until many decades later.
Liberace, who was in 1945 performing as "Walter 'Buster' Keys," stated that he got the idea of having an ornate candelabra on his piano from the scene in this film when George Sand (Merle Oberon) carries a candelabra into the darkened salon and places it on the piano to reveal Chopin as the pianist rather than Franz Liszt.
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Jan 7, 1990 · What has caused Mr. Lapine's calm, laconic directing style to unravel is the first big scene involving another great composer-pianist who figures in the plot, the Hungarian cult figure Franz Liszt,...
