Impromptu

Judy Davis can't redeem the movie. Emma Thompson simpers, Mandy Patkin irritates, Hugh Grant is extraordinarily discomfited, Bernadette Peters pouts, Julian Sands attempts a Hungarian accent & fails. Dear GOD what a mismash & waste.... Full review

Absolutely beautiful, and amazing in every way! I fell madly in love w/ it the first time I watched it! It is now my 2nd all-time favorite movie in the world! Everything about it is just so wonderful, and so romantic,... Full review

I love this movie! I'm not really big on bio-pics so I'm not really sure how I ended up seeing this in the first place. I clearly remember nearly falling off the sofa laughing, and going out afterwards to look for... Full review

One of the best 'movies I had never heard of'. Hugh Grant's comic turn is the centerpiece of this ultra-witty biopic. As a character describes him in one of the many unforgettable lines in the script "He's as frail as... Full review

This was a rather good movie, it wasn't as funny as it should have been but overall a good movie. I liked the modesty of Chopin, at least they didn't trash his image. And the music that his character added was... Full review

It doesn't happen often that one knows the portrayed characters better than the cast, however star studded this production is.And it is amazing what they all achieve ! These great actors really come close of BEING the Sand, Liszt, d'Agoult... Full review

Recently re-watched this movie and I am going to buy some of Chopin's music. I just loved the story and the acting-I thought Judy Davis and Hugh Grant were fantastic. It is the kind of a story that remains in... Full review

I liked Impromptu, I liked the characters, their development, the setting, the costumes. I like it all. It was a genuinely funny film. The kids, the duel, the horse's commentary were priceless gems. The story was well written and the... Full review

When I saw this during its theatrical release, it was one of the few films for which I hadn't prepared myself by reading printed reviews and checking out available TV commentators. Therefore my enjoyment was, perhaps, a little keener than... Full review

This excellently written, splendidly acted, marvellously sound-tracked and beautifully filmed picture is most probably the best film ever made on Chopin and Sand, that subject most difficult to approach without crashing into drab sentimentality. The film is a comedy solidly... Full review

But Judy Davis must be singled out for her remarkable performance as Sand.....Impromptu" has fewer pretenses and aims -.... ... Full Review

Impromptu" is a celebration of romanticism, of joyful release, big emotions, bohemianism and the splendid pursuit of art. He also knows how to showcase the virtues of his best actors (and, in the case of Julian Sands as Liszt, disguise the deficiencies of his lesser ones). ... Full Review

But the drama is too lighthearted to worry with such trifles. Her "Impromptu" transforms their troubled liaison into a disarmingly enjoyable divertissement. In witty pursuit of Davis, Patinkin makes an effective comic catalyst. ... Full Review

The plot is simple.....while mutual friend Bernadette Peters attempts to sabotage their relationship.... ... Full Review

Despite all this assembled talent Neither stuffy nor wildly revisionist, Kernochan's script only fitfully captures the humor and agony of mismatched geniuses in love. ... Full Review

George Sand, whose real name was Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin, became famous for taking a man's name, wearing trousers, and smoking cigars in public. That would hardly get her into the papers today, but during her lifetime (1804-1876) she was... ... Full Article

The film concerns a nervous young man in London around 1960. He's inherited a nice building and lives on the rents, but also works as a cheesecake photographer, but is far too nervous around the girls to respond when they... ... Full Article

If a foray into the hedonistic, bohemian world of Art laced with barbed humor so sharp it will make your sides bleed from laughing appeals to you, try this: a hilarious look at love and stardom, 19th-century style. ... Full Article

It seems like the minute you dress characters up in period costumes, they're going to behave very badly towards each other -- downright bitchy if you will. ... Full Article

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. ... Full Article