Chopin: Desire For Love
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Manufacturer: Mti Home Video
Starring: Jadwiga Baranska, Piotr Adamczyk, Danuta Stenka
Directed By: Jerzy Antczak
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Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0039414520347
Format: Closed-captioned
Label: Mti Home Video
Manufacturer: Mti Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Mti Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2004-11-30
Running Time: 118
Studio: Mti Home Video
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A tangled web of unruly passion chronicling the stormy affair between the great piano virtuoso fredric chopin & the flamboyant feminist aurora dupin who called herself george sand. A sweeping portayal of the famed composer & his intense but hurtful relationship with george sand & her children. Studio: Mti Productions Release Date: 07/26/2005 Run time: 118 minutes Rating: R
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Summary: Good for snuggling on the sofa
Comment: If it fascinates you to learn more of the life of those whose music has surrounded generations of listeners, there are movies that satisfy this need. The original movie on Tchaikovsky (there are 2, the best is Russian w/English subtitles), this movie, and, of course, Amadeus (Mozart) are the finest of the genre that I've discovered. Enjoy a beautiful movie and beautiful music and hopefully, a beautiful evening.
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Summary: Desired Love...did anyone give or receive it?
Comment: 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 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.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Disappointing
Comment: 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.
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Summary: Not an entertaining Movie.
Comment: This movie is in no way is as good as "A song to remember" with Cornell Wilde.I don't understand how a polish made movie woulg present Chopin in such a way it did even if it was true. I prefer to see the more positive side of Chopin and his greatness.
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Summary: A most awkward film: CHOPIN,DESIRE FOR LOVE
Comment: 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.
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