{"id":28773,"date":"2024-06-21T07:01:43","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T11:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=28773"},"modified":"2024-06-21T07:01:43","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T11:01:43","slug":"illusions-perdues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=28773","title":{"rendered":"Illusions Perdues<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"
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How often do we get lavish period pieces based on a novel by Honor\u00e9 de Balzac? I came across this on Amazon Prime Video. According to the Wikipedia article<\/a>, the film (2021) lost money, though its rating on Rotten Tomatoes is 93\/93. It’s a long film — two and a half hours.<\/p>\n

According to the Wikipedia article, Balzac’s first novel (1829) imitated the historical novels of Sir Walter Scott. Illusions Perdues<\/em> (Lost Illusions)<\/em>, however, which was published in serial form between 1837 and 1843, was nothing at all like Walter Scott. Nor was Paris anything like Scotland. The only Balzac I’ve ever read was Le P\u00e8re Goriot<\/em>. I’ve ordered a copy of Illusions Perdues<\/em> and will see if I have any French circuits left.<\/p>\n

A very thoughtful piece of piano music is heard several times during this film — Franz Schubert’s Impromptu No. 3 in G♭ major, opus 90. After you hear excerpts in the film, you’ll want to hear the whole piece. The finest performance of this piece I’ve found on YouTube is by Khatia Buniatishvilli:<\/p>\n

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