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Impromptu

(out of 4) "A smart, sassy, romantic comedy set in the 1880s Europe among the era's artistic greats--here depicted as scalawags, parasites and early beatniks. The film's ace is Davis in a lusty, dynamic role as mannish authoress George Sand, obsessively in love with the dismayed composer Chopin. Though he's too pallid a character for her attraction to be credible, a great cast and abundant wit make this a treat."--VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever Rated PG-13 108m DIR: James Lapine. CAST: Judy Davis, Hugh Grant, Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Julian Sands, Ralph Brown, Georges Coraface, Anton Rodgers, Emma Thompson. 1990 "Patinkin, who has experienced playing such historical figures as painter George Seurat in 'Sunday In The Park With George' and Cuban revolutionary Che Geuvara in 'Evita,' shares the penchant for researching his characters. But he finds that after all the research in the world, each actor must finally work on his own instincts about what the person was really like. 'After a while you still have to forget all the stuff you've read, or at least concentrate on the essence,' the actor noted. 'What came through so strongly from so much I read was just how deeply my character, de Musset, loved George Sand and the great pain he suffered over the loss of that love. That's what I've taken to heart.'"--Impromptu Press Kit "Other prominent characters include the self-centered Franz Liszt (Julian Sands), whose jealous mistress, the Countess Marie d'Agoult (Bernadette Peters), may cause you to think of "Dangerous Liaisons," though she never quite achieves the success of her counterpart in that film, along with the poet Alfred de Musset (Mandy Patinkin), Sand's discarded lover, who is hilarious as he vents his vitriol toward her. All the primary players are wonderful, as are those who fill the many minor roles, each with unexpected depth and dimension, as well as the benefit of witty dialogue and inspired pieces of business."--Deseret News