The Children of the Century (Les Enfants Du Siecle) (NR)

Quicklook Rating★★½

synopsis

The only thing more outrageous than French novelist George Sand's torrid love affair with the decadent author Alfred de Musset and her affinity for wearing men's clothing, was the content of her writing. Though Sand (otherwise known as the Baroness Dudevant) smoked cigars and cross-dressed, it was the boldness of her writing on issues such as the abstinence of marriage and women's frigidity that most contributed to the scandalous reputation she earned in French literary circles. When she met Alfred de Musset, the most gifted poet of his generation, the two quickly became a public cause celebrite while their work would go on to become some of the finest examples of 19th century romanticism.

MovieGoer Review

The story of the tempestuous early 19th century relationship between eccentric French writer George Sand and her decadent younger lover Alfred de Musset, who run off to Venice to further their love and creativity but fail at both.
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synopsis

The only thing more outrageous than French novelist George Sand's torrid love affair with the decadent author Alfred de Musset and her affinity for wearing men's clothing, was the content of her writing. Though Sand (otherwise known as the Baroness Dudevant) smoked cigars and cross-dressed, it was the boldness of her writing on issues such as the abstinence of marriage and women's frigidity that most contributed to the scandalous reputation she earned in French literary circles. When she met Alfred de Musset, the most gifted poet of his generation, the two quickly became a public cause celebrite while their work would go on to become some of the finest examples of 19th century romanticism.

MovieGoer Review

The story of the tempestuous early 19th century relationship between eccentric French writer George Sand and her decadent younger lover Alfred de Musset, who run off to Venice to further their love and creativity but fail at both.
MORE