Chopin: Desire For Love
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Movie Reviews of Chopin: Desire For Love
Movie Review: Please re-release in Polish with English subtitles
Summary: 3 Stars
The bad English dub on this release almost ruins this film. A previous reviewer believes the acting to be poor. It's not the acting: it's the terrible, low quality dub. I really hope this film will be released one day with the original Polish soundtrack (and English subtitles). Even so, it is definitely worth watching for the music and cinematography. It's even more fun to watch after "Children of the Century" which also features the character George Sand.Movie Review: 2 Stars
I was so surprised to see at the movie store a Chopin movie. My favorite composer is Chopin!Smiles smiles on the way home from the rental place.
The first 10 or 20 minutes of the movie was lookin' good. Chopin-actor looks very much like Chopin did, and for the first 20 minutes I thought he acted a lot like Chopin did. As Chopin went into that guy's room and he was playing the march loud and clumsily, Chopin just stayed silent and grimaced. Oh I know that face, and that disposition. It was done all so well. I smiled profusely in the first couple scenes.
But the rest of the movie was BAD. It was extremely over-dramaticized. I simply do not believe after all the Chopin I have studied that he was so rediculous. Most of the movie was unbearable, truthfully. It was a repetitive drama. I was disgusted. :(
I should have turned off the movie after the scene where Liszt and Chopin play for those people. I would have been happy.
Not accurate. Bad.
:( I think Chopin would be disgusted with it. Honestly. They need to put a scene in at the end of this movie where Chopin watches "Chopin: Desire for Love" and ninja-kicks someone in the face.
Movie Review: Cut & Paste
Summary: 2 Stars
The images are nice and the scenes are beautifully made. So from an aesthetic point of view it is very satisfying. But this motion picture is not put together very well. We never know where we are because there is no continuity between one scene and another. To cut a movie is a work of art. But I am afraid there is little artistry here. The cutting process was obviously a mechanical affair, with little feeling put into it. And because there is also very little atmosphere throughout, I would say this movie has no soul that we can resonate with. The actors are not bad, but they certainly lacked direction, like the movie itself. And occasionally the lips of the actors do not follow the words. I was unable to find much authenticity in this story. I was never drawn in. I had a similar feeing with the Beethoven movie Immortal Beloved. The reference for musician movies is of course Amedeus. But the absolute best of the genre is The Music Lovers, Ken Russel's biographical masterpiece of Tchaikovski.
n_hamel@videotron.ca
Movie Review: A most awkward film: CHOPIN,DESIRE FOR LOVE
Summary: 2 Stars
There is not a lot of information about the relationship between pianist Frederic Chopin and authoress George Sand because their correspondence was destroyed. Hence, we have people conjecturing screenplays to tell their story.There are three cinematic attempts that are out there to tell this story.They all fall short of any truth.Thank God Frederic Chopin's music is wonderful,because this film about his life and "love" with George Sand from Polish writer/director Jerzy Antczak is an awkward and unfulfilling piece of Period Cinema that is simply put,bad!.The screenplay is disjointed and flips from person to place with no warning.The acting and voiceovers are atrocious.It would have been better had it been recorded in Polish with subtitles. This film tries to be an AMADEUS, but can never rise to such heights.No DVD extras.Not a recommended rental or purchase.
IMPROMPTU is a far more engaging and better acted film concerning Chopin and Sand.A SONG TO REMEMBER is lush 1930's Hollywood nonsense.
Movie Review: Disappointing
Summary: 2 Stars
I wasn't able to play this DVD on my player - finally watched it on another and found it disappointing. The music is exquisite, of course, but I have several CDs of Chopin music to listen to without the talking. And there are visually beautiful scenes. But in all, it came across as a cheesy soap opera in an aesthetic setting. There was almost no attention on Chopin's creative process, thoughts about music, etc. It was all about the craziness of Sand and her children in relation to him. One thing I found distracting and annoying is that when we first meet Sand's children, there is a little girl and a son who appears to be in his 20s but behaves and is treated like a 12 year old. Then the story jumps to "years later" and the daughter (different actress) is a young woman and the son (same actor) looks and acts the same as before. It adds to the obsurdity of the story. A lot of artistic talent went into the making of this movie - it just wasn't put together all that well.