Children Of The Century

Never has the adage "You can't help who you fall in love with" been more lavishly illustrated than in this historical drama about the Parisian writer and proto-feminist George Sand — née Aurore Dupin — and poet-playwright Alfred de Musset. When they meet in 1833, Sand (Juliette Binoche) is a 29-year-old, bohemian mother of two in an open marriage with a husband who lives elsewhere. Like a much more talented Madonna-of-her-era, she's as famous for her celebrity affairs as for her "scandalous" works. The 23-year-old Musset (Benoit Magimel, who looks like Sean Penn's foppish second cousin) is a figure more in the Jim Morrison mode, a popular talent who ov...