ENTREACTO / ENTR'ACTE Un film / A Film Chopin y los Sand, amor a cuatro bandas. Aproximación a la esfera privada de Fryderyk Chopin a partir de la película Pragnienie Milosci

Two centuries later, the legend Chopin-Sand continues to supply the collective imaginary with vague readings, where historical truthfulness, let alone musical truth, is often contingent on the literary. The much discussed and bellicose romance between the Polish composer and the French novelist, George Sand, tends to some reductionism and evades an obvious reality: Fryderyk Chopin meets George Sand when she was already the mother of two children. This circumstance suggests reformulating certain romantic stereotypes. Jerzy Antczak?s biographical film Pragnienie Mi?o?ci (Chopin: Desire for Love, 2002) does not overlook this detail and makes it one of its narrative axes. The relationship between the pianist and the Sands (George, Maurice, and Solange) lasted 15 years and, according to the feature film, the presence of the pianist did not go unnoticed by the children of Chopin?s protector and lover, Sand. Chopin?s private life and sexual appetites or abstinences are not openly addressed, but the film does invite reflection on his private sphere about the trip to Mallorca and the stays in Nohant. Nothing suggests the musician?s homosexuality, but certainly nothing rules it out.