France
, 110 min
Shown in 1973
CREDITS
- dir
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Michèle Rosier
- scr
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Michèle Rosier
- cam
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Armand Marco
- cast
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Anne Wiazemsky, Bulle Ogier, Roger Planchon, Yves Renier, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Alain Libolt
- prod co
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Go-Films NEF-Diffusion
- source
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Go-Films NEF-Diffusion
OTHER
Her name was Aurore; she called herself George Sand. Michèle Rosier makes her screen debut with this intriguing dramatization of the famous 19th-century French novelist who wore trousers, smoked cigars and deserted her husband to cavort with the intelligentsia. Flaubert and Balzac were her friends, Chopin and poet Alfred de Musset her lovers. Anne Wiazemsky’s George Sand is alluringly authoritative, and the film is handsomely photographed by Armand Marco, often Godard’s cameraman. Bulle Ogier (La Salamandre) is excellent in a supporting role. This is a biography-plus; Ms. Rosier has taken poetic license and given us a richly embellished portrait of that romantic eccentric.
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The SFIFF has honored some of cinema’s best lensers with tributes, including James Wong Howe (1974), Gabriel Figueroa (1984), Nestor Alemendros (1986), Ernest Dickerson (1991) and John Alton (1994). Cinematographer Haskell Wexler received a tribute as a featured filmmaker in the New Directors series, when he appeared with his directorial debut, Medium Cool.
