
Professor Joseph Elsner guides his protégé Frydryk Chopin through his formative years to early adulthood in Poland. At a recital in a duke's home Chopin insults the new Russian-installed governor, and must flee the country. The professor takes him to Paris, where he eventually comes under the wing and influence of novelist George Sand and rises to prominence in the music world, to the exclusion of his old friends and patriotic feelings towards Poland.... (Full plot summary below)
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Professor Joseph Elsner guides his protégé Frydryk Chopin through his formative years to early adulthood in Poland. At a recital in a duke's home Chopin insults the new Russian-installed governor, and must flee the country. The professor takes him to Paris, where he eventually comes under the wing and influence of novelist George Sand and rises to prominence in the music world, to the exclusion of his old friends and patriotic feelings towards Poland.
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| Dispatch-Tribune NewspapersSteve CrumThe melodrama is pretty forced, but the music is superb. |
| User ReviewGreg W"A Song to Remember" is supposed to be the life of Chopin but in fact, very little in it is historically accurate. It's still a beautiful, emotional, and sumptuous movie, filled with the heavenly music of Chopin. |
| User ReviewSV GA nice biography movie about Chopin. I enjoyed it, the actors are good and the story is interesting (weather or not it's accurate, I don't know). |
| User ReviewPauline BCornel Wilde turns in a surprisingly good performance with Merle Oberon especially attractive. Glorious production rich in color and design. Paul Muni's performance is endearing. A great deal to enjoy. |
| User ReviewSpencer RFor it's time, this biopic does a good job of telling a story about Frederic Chopin. Yes the facts may be inaccurate or out of order but that was the studios fault for believing that this film needed to be a box office hit instead of telling the true story of Chopin. There has not been a good movie about a great composer that has told the true story of its source. Chances are that the movie would be actually quite boring if it did. One reason why a movie is made is to tell a story and if it just so happens that a little myth must be made up to do so, so be it. One of the greatest movies ever made, and by far the greatest movie about a classical composer, Amadeus, was full of it. "To sell a story there must be drama," was a common idea among studio heads and this movie is one example of it. Saying this, Paul Muni, Cornel Wilde, and the rest of the cast do a good job of working with what they were given to work with. There were parts of the storyline which I really did enjoy like Chopin's encounter with Liszt and Liszt's and Sand's gift to Chopin through the concealment of Chopin's identity to allow him to showcase his talents in front of the great critic. Some of it was a little sappy and it is definitely not the best work of any involved but if you really love Chopin's music, which I do, the soundtrack showcases a lot of arrangements of his etudes and, even though you may not hear every piece that you love, like any of his piano concertos, you will hear a lot of hints towards a lot of his work if you pay close enough attention. I really only recommend seeing this if you know Chopin's music. What I am grateful for the most about this film was that it was even made. Do you see a film about Brahms, Liszt, Debussy, or even Bach? No. There are only a few of these films and even though they may not be entirely all that accurate or frankly not all that great, the fact that they were made means that the great mind that inspired it, let it be Mozart, Beethoven, or Chopin, was appreciated enough for them to be one of the few to be immortalized in film. Now that is saying something. |
| User ReviewPrivate UPeople have to appreciate the movie from a pure entertaining angle. Facts about Chopin are somewhat inaccurate - anything from Chopin's personality to historical backgrounds are off - but it is the music and the patriotic spirit make the file memorable. :) |
| User ReviewJohn BIn the movie A song to Remember we have a movie focusing on the composer Frederic Chopin and his struggles to balance his loves between music, George Sand, his teacher and his country. The movie features several moments where the historical accuracy is somewhat questionable, but aside from that music is great and the movie won't disappoint fans of the composer. |
| User ReviewSteve BHaven't seen many movies about composers, and being into classical music because I play the piano, it was a very interesting movie for me. Of course some of it is inaccurate, but this is not a biopic- it is a dramatic story based around Chopin. |
| User ReviewGrant SMostly dull. Supposedly the history of Frederic Chopin, but not very accurate at all. Much of the movie is pure fiction, in the movie merely for dramatic effect. Performances are mostly poor. Paul Muni is irritating as the fictional character Professor Elsner, and unfortunately gets a large amount of screentime. Cornel Wilde is so-so as Chopin. The only redeeming qualities are the music and Merle Oberon. Oberon is convincing as George Sand, and stunningly beautiful too. |