Molière 2007 (duris, luchini, morante, sagnier, baer) region free dvd5 french bcbc

Molière is a 2007 film by French director Laurent Tirard and starring Romain Duris as Molière. It was released in Europe in January 2007 and in the United States in July 2007. It was entered into the 29th Moscow International Film Festival where Fabrice Luchini won the Silver George for Best Actor. The screenplay was co-written by Tirard and Grégoire Vigneron.

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Synopsis

Stuck in jail, the brilliant French playwright Molière is sprung by a wealthy man who wants to employ the writer's talents to seduce a young widow. Molière must work disguised as a priest, compounding the confusion in this clever period comedy.



Cast

Romain Duris, Fabrice Luchini, Laura Morante, Edouard Baer, Ludivine Sagnier, Fanny Valette, Gonzague Montuel



MOLIERE

Philip French

Sunday 15 July 2007 18.55 EDT

Laurent Tirard's charming Moliere has made me reconsider its subject. Like many British theatregoers I acknowledge the greatness of Moliere while rarely having found him particularly amusing or profound on stage. Just two productions stand out in my memory. The first was in 1950 when as a schoolboy I saw George Coulouris as Tartuffe at the Bristol Old Vic, his first performance back in Britain after his years with Orson Welles in New York and Hollywood. We were dazzled just to see an actor from Citizen Kane in the flesh in Bristol. But the play, performed in a flat-footed prose translation by the actor Miles Malleson, was a grave disappointment. The second was John Dexter's triumphant 1973 National Theatre production of The Misanthrope, updated 300 years to the 1966 Paris of President de Gaulle, starring Alec McCowen as Alceste and Diana Rigg as Celimene. It was funny and elegant, and Tony Harrison's superlative verse translation is still a delight to read.



Moliere is a French equivalent of Shakespeare in Love, an imaginative treatment of a crucial point in its subject's literary and emotional development, as clever, romantic and beautifully mounted as the British movie, though less consistently witty and amusing. The known facts are that in 1644 the 22-year-old Moliere (aka Jean-Baptiste Poquelin), a bankrupt actor-playwright specialising in tragedy, fled Paris with his Illustre-Theatre company. After spending 13 years touring with them he returned to the capital, the brilliant author and actor of comedies and tragedies, to become France's greatest playwright. How did this happen?



Tirard has drawn on the subsequent plays to spin an ingenious story of how the penniless Moliere (a wonderfully energetic, engaging performance by Romain Duris) is hired by the bourgeois gentilhomme Monsieur Jourdain (Fabrice Luchini, both touching and ridiculous) to ghost-write a play that would impress the glacial, sharp-tongued widow Celimene, whom he loves. To deceive his beautiful wife (Laura Morante) he passes off Moliere as Tartuffe, a young priest hired to tutor their younger daughter. Moliere falls in love with Madame Jourdain, and during an elaborate farcical intrigue he comes to discover that comedy can plumb depths as profound as tragedy, have a broader appeal and raise the human spirit. A very satisfying film.