Chopin: Desire For Love
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Movie Reviews of Chopin: Desire For Love
Movie Review: Disappointment!
Summary: 2 Stars
The movie concentrated on the acerbic, immature and utterly repulsive relationship between Chopin, George Sand, her son and her daughter. It would have made more sense to delve a bit into Chopin, his motivations, and the draw between Chopin and his muse. Snippets of his music were the only saving grace in the film. I came away without sympathy for any of the characters in the movie, unable to identify with any of them, and disgusted with the lot of them, from Chopin's hatred of chicken thighs to Sands being oblivious to the impact of her affair on her family, to Selange's throwing herself at Chopin and to Maurice's immaturity and hatred of Chopin. Talk about a dysfunctional family! And how did Chopin put together his magnificent music and maintain his irrepressible talent throughout all of this? A very disappointing movie.Movie Review: If you like Chopin, buy a CD...
Summary: 2 Stars
The movie is poorly done, and hard to follow. The plot makes very little sense.
The music itself is pretty good. However, if you just like the music, then buy a CD.
Movie Review: Chopin
Summary: 2 Stars
Disappointed in the whole movie. The storyline felt very fragmented to me. Not a favorite of mine.Movie Review: Desired Love...did anyone give or receive it?
Summary: 1 Stars
First of all, the sound was terrible. The actors either whispered or shouted. I think there was only one guy (Alberto? don't know what his function in Chopin's life was)who spoke normally. I was either turning the sound way up or way down.
The subtitles are only in Spanish, which helped a little, but the language wasn't always accurate.
There wasn't much story there at all. Chopin and Sand catch each other's eye in a courtyard, later she sees him play, and sends him a note. Although she was speaking English, her accent made it impossible to understand her - she was one of the whisperers...except when she was shouting that Chopin drove her crazy with his refusal to answer her questions...anyway, I did not understand the attraction on either's part. They meet and immediately move out to the country, together with her children (they screech - sound DOWN). They get kicked out of one house, I forget why, and find another. Sand's son Maurice skulks around spying all the time, this gets on Chopin's nerves. Sand wants everybody to get along, but it's like having three kids instead of two...Chopin does not see why her children need any attention from her and he resents them. Maurice is sick with jealousy of Chopin, and Sand tries to soothe him. Chopin appears to never have shown any interest in the children...so Sand is running between her children and him and trying to please everyone (for what?)...Chopin is diagnosed with TB, and the doctor tells Sand it is very contagious and to get her kids out of there. She makes no comment...later daughter tells her suspicions that Chopin is consumptive and they shouldn't be around him...Sand ignores her. Chopin doesn't start coughing (loudly - sound DOWN)until the very end of the movie. Chopin and Sand have an argument and he tells her to get out. End of scene.
Next scene "Years Later" we are told....how many years, or what transpired in those years, we are not told. Chopin and Sand are living together with the kids...daughter Solange has grown and now considers herself in love with Chopin because he is a "genius." Tries to seduce him, accuses Mom of hiring a maid to have sex with him because she no longer wants to...Sand just wants to be "friends"...huh? What happened to their great passion? Chopin's stupid butler is loudly clanging pans together and laughing (sound DOWN) which drives Maurice crazy and I don't blame him...too much noise already in this freaking movie. Maurice says he has the authority to throw Chopin out....maybe this is Maurice's property? We are not told. There's lots of running through the field, running down the road (fast forward!) and much screeching with laughter (sound DOWN)for no apparent reason. Also lots of closeups on Chopin's face looking all gooey-eyed, remembering times with his family.
The messed up sound was an extra annoying punishment on top of a completely dull movie. I cared about no one in this film, and I saw no motivation for Sand to to kowtow to the spoiled, whiny Chopin as she did.
I think the kids are the ones who desired love.
Movie Review: If you absolutely must....
Summary: 1 Stars
I had high hopes for this movie at the beginning, based on beautiful art direction, costumes, period hair styles, street scenes, etc. The CD's problematic sound forces constant volume adjustment if you are at all sensitive to sudden blasts of soundtrack music or screaming and shouting. As usual, the impression is given that George Sand lost her femininity entirely every time she put on a pair of pants and a top hat or lit up a smoke. She wore what were then exclusively men's clothes (at least in the higher society through which she moved) because they were comfortable and she was cute and attracted attention, not so that she could act like Jimmy Cagney in a ganster movie! I doubt that she was any less feminine in a suit than Ms. Hepburn or Ms. Loy were in slacks. Unfortunately, here Sand is depicted as a publicly leering and too-forward female roue, whether in pants or skirts. The acting is over-the-top melodramatic, the screenplay needs a lot more craft to eliminate the indulgence of noisy, boring, forced family cavorting about the coutryside among Sand, her son and daughter, and Uncle Frederic. Continuity around the casting and aging of Solange is particularly lacking. The movie also provokes my usual beef with depictions of George Sand which is that she is is rarely shown as the maxi-capable work horse she was, writing through the night, fueled with coffee and chocolat, to support herself, her children and Chopin, after her day spent running a grand home, managing the staff that was required to keep a houseful of people comfortable by providing food, lodging and entertainment for her artist guests at Nohant.
That said, the depiction of what went wrong between Sand and Chopin, and among them and Sand's understandably messed up children is fairly drawn, i.e., the hexed weather and ruinous housing conditions in the unfortunate excursion to Mallorca, Chopin's illness stifling Sand's and his erotic life, her boomerang-style of overindulgence with total dismissal of her children. In most biographies of the people involved, it is clear that no one behaved very well as their golden ages passed. Having enjoyed biographies of Sand and Chopin, Liszt and Marie D'Agoult and their own messed up children, etc., I stuck with this movie based on some sense of loyalty to the subjects, but my husband gave it "six rotten tomatoes" ten minutes into it, and left the room!