May 23 and 24, 5:00 PM, "Impromptu." 143 min.

Film in English. No Polish subtitles.

"Impromptu" is a 1991 costume drama directed by James Lapine, from a screenplay by Sarah Kernochan, produced by Daniel A. Sherkow and Stuart Oken, and starring Hugh Grant as Frédéric Chopin and Judy Davis as George Sand. The film was shot entirely in France as a British production by an American company. The principal location was the Château des Briottières near Angers in the Loire Valley. After her divorce, immediately after completing her memoirs, Baroness Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin (formerly Baroness Dudevant, the successful and infamous author of sensational romance novels) lives in Paris under the pseudonym George Sand. Sand, a determined and aggressive woman who wore men's clothing, had a series of lovers who regularly abandoned her when she inevitably grew bored with them. Her latest love interest is the tubercular and sensitive, brilliant composer, Frédéric Chopin, whose music she greatly admired before meeting him. Sand's friend, Countess Marie d'Agoult, the mistress of Chopin's friend, the renowned composer Franz Liszt, advises Sand that to win over the shy and weak Chopin, she must behave like a man courting a woman; like a woman, Chopin will ultimately succumb to a stronger personality. Knowing that aggression will repel Chopin, the jealous d'Agoult manipulates to hinder the relationship between Chopin and Sand. D'Agoult resents Sand for avoiding the stigma she herself experienced as Liszt's mistress.