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Les enfants du siècle (1999)
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22 September 1999 (France)
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Love, betrayal, passion and pride. more
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The only thing more outrageous than French novelist George Sand's torrid love affair with the decadent...
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A Delacroix Painting
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Juliette Binoche | ... | George Sand / Baroness Aurore Dudevant | |
| Benoît Magimel | ... | Alfred de Musset | |
| Stefano Dionisi | ... | Pietro Pagello | |
| Robin Renucci | ... | François Buloz | |
| Karin Viard | ... | Marie Dorval | |
| Isabelle Carré | ... | Aimée d'Alton | |
| Patrick Chesnais | ... | Gustave Planche | |
| Arnaud Giovaninetti | ... | Alfred Tattet | |
| Denis Podalydès | ... | Sainte-Beuve | |
| Olivier Foubert | ... | Paul de Musset | |
| Marie-France Mignal | ... | Mme. de Musset | |
| Michel Robin | ... | Larive | |
| Ludivine Sagnier | ... | Hermine de Musset | |
| Victoire Thivisol | ... | Solange (as Victoire) | |
| Julien Léal | ... | Maurice |
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The Children of the Century (Canada: English title) (Europe: English title) (USA)
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135 min | Argentina:107 min | USA:105 min (theatrical version)
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Hungary:18 |
Canada:PG (Ontario) |
Argentina:16 |
Chile:14 |
Finland:K-11 |
France:U |
Germany:12 |
Spain:13 |
Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) |
Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) |
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The film was shot in the actual rooms in the Hotel Danieli which Sand and Musset stayed in.
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Alfred de Musset:
You imitate passion, but you feel nothing.
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Version of A Song to Remember (1945)
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If Romanticism, as a movement, can be defined as an "infinite longing" which combines passion and erotic tension with death, despair, and the cycles of nature, then Kurys film portrayal is aptly named and her protagonists--Alfred de Musset and Georges Sand--are indeed children of their century.
The key to understanding the point of this film is to think of it as a painting. It does not give you an insider's view of the relationship between these two literary giants; it does not break down their psychology; and you do not even understand why you, as an audience member, should like either of them. Yet their obsessive love was a monument for the first major artistic movement of the 19th century. Kurys paints them as Delacroix would--in all their lurid color, capturing the details of high emotion without explaining a thing. As painting on film, Les Enfants succeeds as wildly as any Romantic dreamscape and, thus, captures the mood of that era and the sentiment which spawned it more perfectly than 1,000 words on the subject.