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Bright Star
Why this pick
A sensuous, witty period romance centered on an artist’s fierce independence and a fragile creative bond, with the same love of literary and musical feeling beneath its elegant surface.
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MOVIE1991 1h 47m GBR
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Since getting divorced, Baroness Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin, previously Baroness Dudevant, the successful and notorious writer of sensational romance novels now living under the pseudonym George Sand, in Paris, has been in the habit of dressing like a man. In her romantic pursuit of the sensitive Chopin, whose music she fell in love with before seeing him in person, George/Aurora is advised that she must act like a man pursuing a woman, though she is also advised to avoid damaging his health by not pursuing him at all. With this advice Sand is deterred by a fellow countrywoman who pretends to be smitten with Chopin, the mistress of Franz Liszt, the Countess Marie d'Agoult. Whether the Countess is really in love with Chopin is unlikely; she seeks only to prevent a relationship between Chopin and Sand.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Mandy Patinkin
Alfred De Musset
Ralph Brown
Eugene Delacroix
Georges Corraface
Felicien Mallefille
Emma Thompson
Duchess D'Antan
David Birkin
Maurice
Elizabeth Spriggs
Baroness Laginsky
Anna Massey
George Sand's Mother
Judy Davis
Geroge Sand