It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

I was really hoping to find some special quality in the two main characters that I could like. However, self absorbed people are usually too melodramatic about every single aspect of their lives and so I had no sympathy for their predicament at all. So, I settled back and enjoyed Julliet Binochet at work. The film was meticulously crafted and the settings and costumes were wonderful, so I got the time machine effect, too. If you like historical melodrama, you might enjoy this.

Diane Kury's oppulent film is a mixed bag. In it's favour it featuresreal life lovers Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel on excellentform. As Alfred de Musset Magimel gives us a young mancompletely out of his mind on a cocktail of opium and absinthe. Aman deeply creative and talented, but unable to function as ahuman being. Binoche's George Sand is a strong a determinedwoman. The scene where she finds that Musset may die afteroverdosing is wonderfully performed with passion and grandeur.The film comes alive in her eyes. As filmed by Vilko Filac anddressed by Christian La Croix, Binoche has never looked morebeautiful or sensual. However Kurys' direction and her screenplay, co-written byFrancois Olivier Rousseau and Murray Head, lacks direction andunderstanding of her period. The brothel scenes are particularlyover the top. Yet her direction of her actor is magnificent.What is missing from Kurys' film most of all however is Sand andMusset as writers, as creative masters. There is no sense of theirvalue in the film beyond their doomed love affair.Les Enfants du Siecle is a mixed bag, but certainly worth a look.

I enjoyed very much this film. The story is really interesting it deals also with the difficult situation of women in the first half of XIX century. Juliette Binoche is wonderful in this role, she is an ideal person for George Sand. The pictures are wonderful. The film is a bit too slow but the viewer has time to live through the emotional turmoil of Alfred and George. This film is worth seeing.

I saw this film in French with Spanish subtitles so I had to read very fast! The photography is beautiful. I had not seen either of the principal actors before but I will look for them again. Miss Binoche made George Sand a real person not just an odd woman! The actor who played Alfred de Musset, showed him as charming but weak, very well done.