Molière PG-13
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 2 hours, 1 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 22, 2008
- Originally Released: 2007
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Romain Duris | |
Performer: | Fabrice Luchini, Laura Morante, Edouard Baer, Ludivine Sagnier & Fanny Valette | |
Directed by | Laurent Tirard | |
Screenwriting by | Laurent Tirard & Grégoire Vigneron | |
Composition by | Frederic Talgorn | |
Produced by | Marc Missonnier & Olivier Delbosc | |
Director of Photography: | Gilles Henry |
Entertainment Reviews:
4 stars out of 5 -- [A] wildly impressive French frolic....Both a glittering showcase for a literary giant's comic genius and a first-class farce in its own right. By turns funny, mysterious, suffering and sexy.
Total Film
Rating: 1.5/4 --
Woefully miscast as the seminal 17th-century French farceur Molière, the intense, black-maned young French movie star Romain Duris never seems more comfortable than the brief moments when he's rotting in a dank jail.
Toronto Star
Witty lines, sumptuous settings, manicured lawns and horses with carriages provide the setting for this frivolous romp that caresses history as it plays with the misadventures of French playwright Molière %u2026 With just the right balance of playfulness
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Urban Cinefile
Rating: 4/5 --
A breezy historical romance with a strong knack for comedy.
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DVDTalk.com
An extravagant and thoroughly irresistible story of intrigue, romance, comedy and artistic inspiration.
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Washington Post
Rating: 1.5/4 --
In making a comedy about a writer famed for his perfectly tuned wit, the filmmakers have inspired other expectations. The result is as off-putting as biting into a confection in which the sugar has been replaced by salt.
Globe and Mail
Rating: 4/5 --
A sophisticated and literate biographical speculation is the basis of this witty and entertaining portrait of the titular artist.
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New Zealand Herald
Product Description:
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 endearingly mangy as Moliere, but it's Morante who scores highest, playing yet another in Gallic cinema's many celebrated sexy, intelligent older women. It's in French with English subtitles.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 45,145
- UPC: 043396214651
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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