This week I enjoyed watching the movie "Impromptu" about George Sand, the French novelist. She is a fascinating woman and earlier this year I read Elizabeth Berg's historical fiction "The Dream Lover" about Sand.
The cast of "Impromptu" is stellar with Judy Davis playing Sand and Hugh Grant as the young and innocent Frederic Chopin, the man Sand wants and chases. She tells Chopin that he is not a man, his hands, his halo, his wings, he is an angel. She worships the man and his extreme talent.
The
movie is filmed entirely in France in 1991 by an American company and
with British actors. Julian Sands plays Franz Liszt. Sand was known for
her scandalous behavior, separated from her husband and having romances
with famous men, wearing men's clothes, smoking cigars, and breaking
many rules. The costumes, the settings and the many famous people she
knows add to the pleasure of watching the movie. Below is the cemetery sculpture of George Sand.
I have not read any of her novels, even though she was the most poplar novelist in France during her life time. Have you read her novels?
