Sounds like a fun film!
A film about Moliere should be very funny. I love the plays of Moliere, especially "L'Ecole des Femmes." His plays are still funny, even after many hundreds of years later.
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Watchable or not ?
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I think that Romain Duris should be great as Molière !
Eric
The film was great; a scene near the beginning, where he (Molière) is about to be thrown into prison for debt, made me think of Groucho Marx.
I, living in France, watched the original version and found most of the actors really fitted the roles; I found myself wondering whether they or the director "fine-tuned" the acting. I can only hope that the "English" language version does it justice.
Fabrice Luchini is my lady friend's favourite actor and his performance was certainly very good - very amusing.
I'll probably buy the DVD when it comes out so as to catch the bits I may have missed because of laughing!
Michael
Found it purely conceptual, with a cast unfunnily and artificially over the top (Lucchini, Baer, Sagnier) or simply unfunny (Duris, who acts from his throat up and certainly not out of his soul) — an unimaginative script that felt as if it were penned as a test to apply to film school : "imagine a story toying with the unsung years of Molière, and during which he would have gotten most of the ideas for his later works. You will have to use, for the test, the basic rules of comedy and you are not allowed to invent any rules of your own." Grade? F.
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Fabrice Luchini is my lady friend's favourite actor and his performance was certainly very goodI loved him in this film. He's a fine comic talent because he plays a ridiculed man so seriously and with a touch of melancholy. The blending of tragi-comedy as an actor, which was what Moliere was exhorted to invent.
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