Impromptu with Judy Davis: DVD Cover

    Impromptu Director: James Lapine Cast: Judy Davis, Hugh Grant, Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters

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    • DVD Release Date: 03/19/2002
    • Original Release: 1990
    • Rating: Rated PG13
    • Sales Rank: 8,620

    Viewer Rating: (5 ratings)

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    Original theatrical trailer

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    Scene Index

    Side #1 --
    0. Scene Selections
    1. Main Titles/Rituals [6:58]
    2. A Prayer's Answer [7:13]
    3. The Fortnight Begins [4:51]
    4. Picnic on the Grass [5:44]
    5. George Scales Walls [6:03]
    6. Marie's Treachery [8:32]
    7. Brilliance at Dinner [6:42]
    8. Horseplay [4:57]
    9. "Stupid, Stupid Rain" [8:23]
    10. How to Win Chopin [8:35]
    11. Discovery and Loss [5:16]
    12. Confrontations [8:36]
    13. "A Perfect Impromptu" [5:13]
    14. Duel and Duet [12:30]
    15. Love's Generosity [4:30]
    16. The Good Air/Credits [3:20]

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    Editorial Reviews

    Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin, better known in the literary world as George Sand, not only took a man's name, but trotted around wearing pants and smoking cigars in public. No great shakes today, but in the 1800s she was perhaps the most famous (or infamous) woman in the world. One of the first original celebrities, aside from her garb and literary output, she was known to inspire many duels and broken hearts among other famous hedonist artists. One character describes her in Impromptu, as "that graveyard." The film engages in a sexual roundelay among Sand's (Judy Davis) many friends -- Eugene Delacroix (Ralph Brown), Alfred DeMusset (Mandy Patinkin), Franz Liszt (Julian Sands), and Frederick Chopin (Hugh Grant). The entire crew heads off to the summer estate of the Duke and Duchess d'Antan (Anton Rodgers and Emma Thompson), invited there by the culture-vulture hosts. Sand takes a bead on the sickly Chopin and spends her time throwing herself at him. Also on hand is Liszt's mistress Marie d'Agoult (Bernadette Peters) and Felicien Mallefille (Georges Corraface), Sand's recently jilted lover. Mallefille is jealous of any of the other guests who glance in Sand's direction and continually challenges them to duels. Marie, on the other hand, is enlisted by Sand to deliver a note to Chopin. But Marie, jealous of Sand, delivers the note substituting her name for Sand's. And as the weekend continues, the sexual merry-go-round continues at full tilt. Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide

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    Response to Fuddiduddinessby Anonymous

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    December 19, 2006: I don't think I spelled fuddy-duddiosity correctly above. I've studied a little of Chopin's life and did not find anything in this movie to really matter, regarding his life. There is a bit of his music in the movie--which is fabulous. Also, there are some fine actors portraying events that may or may not have mattered. I'm pretty sure the kids blowing up a frog in the first scene never did so. I bet the movie makers didn't actually blow-up the frog, so I'll guess that didn't matter either. If this were an educational film about Nazis, I'd hold it to a different "mattering" standard--but Mandy Patinkin and Hugh Grant are in it and they're really fun. Also, there's a lot of touching moments. Chopin, played by Mr. Grant, has a quote at the end of the movie about what it is like to live with an illness for a long time and how that changes your attitude. I'll be he didn't really say it, but that fact that Hugh did, and it was caught on film, mattered to me. Nice costumes... etc. (pardon my spelling errors with the names above)

    I Second The Emotionby Anonymous

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    February 11, 2004: The previous reviewer who was outraged by the fact that the movie was not only inaccurate historically but plain bad as any sort of story is on target. We might laugh at the romantics and see their lives as a 'french bedroom farce,' but they didn't see themselves that way--which is the very essence of romanticism. They were deadly serious about love and art. Les Enfants du Siecle captures the high drama of their times, and their sense of themselves. They were not spoofing rebellion. They were revolutionary in the way they lived and the way they wrote. Impromptu does not capture this historical fact, but imposes farce and titillation on its subjects--and not very interesting or funny farce at that.


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