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Film Description
Romain Duris stars as down-and-out actor-cum-playwright Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, later to become known to the world as Moliere in this lavish period drama.
Film Information
| Director | Laurent Tirard | ||||
| Starring | Romain Duris, Fabrice Luchini, Laura Morante, Ludivine Sagnier, Fanny Valette
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| Genre | World Cinema
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| Country | France | Language | French | Year | 2007 |
DVD Extras
Behind The Scenes; Making-of
Technical Details
| Certificate | PG | Length | 120 mins | Label | FOX | ||
| Cat No | P922501000 | Format | DVD | Colour | |||
| Region | 2 | Aspect | 16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen | ||||
| Subtitles | English . | ||||||
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Review by Michael Brooke on 8th October 2007
A disarmingly shameless French hommage to Shakespeare in Love, Laurent Tirard's elegant and witty seventeenth-century comedy constructs a similar romantic contrivance around alleged events from the life of the playwright Molière (the pseudonym of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin), taking advantage of a period in 1644 that has never been reliably documented. In this heavily fictionalised version, the debt-ridden young actor-writer (a dashing Romain Duris) is hired by the wealthy Monsieur Jourdain (Fabrice Luchini) to coach the latter in the art of performance in order to win the heart of a widowed countess. His pupil's painfully obvious lack of talent makes this a thankless task, rendered somewhat more diverting by the alluring presence of Madame Jourdain (Laura Morante). The resulting farcical liaisons lead to Molière's realisation that his initial pretensions towards tragedy are massively outweighed by a supremely natural gift for comedy. Unsurprisingly, the film has countless allusions to his still unwritten plays, though they function more as bonbons for the well-read than vital keys to comprehension: those after a straightforwardly rollicking costume romance will be amply satisfied.
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