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Year: 2007 USA: Sony Pictures Classics UK: Pathé Distribution Cast: Romain Duris, Fabrice Luchini, Laura Morante, Edouard Baer, Ludivine Sagnier, Fanny Valette, Mélanie Dos Santos, Gonzague Montuel, Gilian Petrovsky, Sophie-Charlotte Husson, Arié Elmaleh, Éric Berger Director: Laurent Tirard Country: France Language: French (English subtitles) UK: 120 mins USA Rated: PG-13 for some sexual content UK Certificate: 12A contains one scene of moderate sex USA Release Date: 27 July 2007 (Limited Release - New York and Los Angeles) UK Release Date: 13 July 2007 (Limited Release) Movie reviews Official US website Official UK website Synopsis Paris 1644. 22 year-old Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, also known as Molière (Romain Duris), hasn’t yet aspired to become 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. By contrast he is a failed actor and his Illustrious Theatre Troupe that he founded the previous year is bankrupt. Pursued by creditors, Molière is thrown into jail, released, and 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 climax when Molière returns triumphantly to Paris. But what happened to Molière during these mysterious lost months? Molière has had his debts paid by a wealthy bourgeois, Monsieur Jourdain (Fabrice Luchini) and released from jail on the understanding that he will teach his benefactor the craft of the stage. Jourdain, hungry for recognition, is infatuated with the lovely but dangerous Célimene (Ludivine Sagnier), whose salon gathers together suitors and great wits. Jourdain’s affair must remain a secret from his wife Elmire (Laura Morante), a wonderful woman with whom Molière himself will fall headlong in love. To cover himself Jourdain has introduced Molière as Monsieur Tartuffe, an austere private tutor, to justify his presence. Trapped in this untenable situation, Molière will experience all manner of events that will open his eyes and his mind, both to life itself and to his work as an artist. And it is from the heart of this tale, from his passion for Elmire, that Molière the great dramatist is born. |
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