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Moliere (DVD, 2007)
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Moliere, the French 17th century playwright behind THE MISANTHROPE and TARTUFFE, gets his SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE treatment in this entertaining romantic comedy-drama. Director Laurent Tirard paints a romantic portrait of the artist as a young man that's a deft mix of fact and fiction, involving wealthy buffoon Jourdain (Fabrice Luchini) who enlists Moliere's help to woo the icy Marquise Celimene (SWIMMING POOL's Ludivigne Sagnier). Jourdain's neglected wife (Laura Morante) regards Moliere's presence in their manor with suspicion (he's posing as a religious scholar). The callow Moliere finds himself drawn to Madame, despite her doubts, and she to him, especially when he helps her in aiding the forbidden romance of her daughter. Backed by a robust orchestral score, sumptuous period detail, and plenty of pratfall-suffused romantic entanglements (lifted from Moliere's plays), the movie bravely steps outside its dramatic outline to become a moving meditation on the meaning of love as selflessness, in the best French tradition of intellectual and romantic discourse. Romain Duris (THE BEAT MY HEART SKIPPED) is endearing as Moliere, but it's Morante who scores highest, playing yet another in Gallic cinema's many celebrated sexy, intelligent older woman 1644, Paris, and 22-year-old Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, also known as Molière, is not yet the writer that history recognizes as the father and true master of comic satire, author of The Misanthrope and Tartuffe, and a dramatist to rank alongside Shakespeare and Sophocles. Far from it. He is, in fact, a failed actor. His Illustrious Theatre Troupe, founded the previous year, is bankrupt. Hounded by creditors, Molière is thrown into jail, released, then swiftly imprisoned again. When the jailors finally let him go, he disappears. The combined efforts of historians have unearthed no trace of him before his reappearance, several months later, when his troupe begins touring the provinces - a tour that will last for thirteen years, and culminate in Molière's triumphant return to Paris in 1658. A thoroughly enjoyable romp through the 17thc FranceRead full review
Unforgettable: a highly poignant take on romance that is timeless, and which lifts 'love' well clear of the superficial and artificial. Forgotten is that sometimes there are losses of nuance in translation to subtitles, because so tangible is the chemistry between the actors, and readily accessible is a truly infectious the wit and humor that at first lifts the corner of your mouth and then makes you burst out laughing. If only the English had an actor as talented and astonishingly talented as Romain Duris to play William Shakespeare. A really great French film; give it a watch!
Superb French costume drama - a sort of "Shakespeare in Love" with a French accent. Actor and writer Moliere, rotting in prison and with a mountain of debt, is offered a way out of his troubles if he helps a rich fool to seduce a beautiful young widow. Great romantic comedy stars Romain Duris, Fabrice Luchini, Laura Morante, Edouard Baer and the delightful up-and-coming star Ludivine Sagnier.
Saw it on Television, loved it and wanted to see it again at leisure. As a french speaker, it was pleasing to note how well the film had been subtitled so all the family will be able to enjoy an amusing story (The French answer to Shakespeare in Love!)
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