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Set in Paris in 1644, this period drama/biopic brings to life the youth of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, who would later become known to the world as MoliΦre but, at the age of 22, was only a struggling actor.

Product Identifiers

ProducerOlivier Delbosc, Marc Missonnier

EAN5060002835777

eBay Product ID (ePID)60541397

Product Key Features

ActorLudivine Sagnier, Fanny Valette, Laura Morante, Fabrice Luchini, Romain Duris

Film/TV TitleMoliere

DirectorLaurent Tirard

LanguageFrench

Subtitle LanguageEnglish

Run Time116 Mins

Aspect Ratio16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen

FormatDVD

Release Year2007

FeaturesWidescreen, With Subtitles, Behind the Scenes Making of Featurette\Original Theatrical Trailer

GenreDrama, Period

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

Certificate12A/12

Country/Region of ManufactureFrance

ComposerFrederic Talgorn

ReviewsRadio Times - A Gallic SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE, Sight And Sound - As Moliere, Romain Duris carries the film almost effortlessly....Laura Morante is equally compelling as his lover Elmire

Additional InformationMoliere, 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 women.

ScreenwriterGregoire Vigneron, Laurent Tirard

Sound sourceDolby Digital 5.1

Movie/TV TitleMoliere

Director of PhotographyGilles Henry

Consumer AdviceContains one scene of moderate sex