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Avg. Customer Rating:  (based on 8 reviews)
Sales Rank: 400
Category: DVD
Director: Laurent Tirard
Publisher: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Label: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Format: Pal
Language: French (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
Media: DVD
Running Time: 116 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5060002835777
ASIN: B000UH3VHC
Release Date: November 12, 2007
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
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 Amazing February 26, 2008
This film made me laugh and cry all at once. It may not be a film that changes your life but it touches your soul.
 3 1/2 Stars: Leather and Lace February 18, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Director/Writer Laurent Tirard and co-writer Gregoire Vigneron have wisely decided to make this film about a short period of Moliere's (a can this actor do no wrong, Romain Duris?) life rather than attempt to make a survey film about Moliere's entire life. As such this "Moliere" sketches in the mysterious lost years of Jean Baptiste Poquelin life and mostly to good advantage.
Physically "Moliere" is an absolutely sumptuous affair: all plush velvet and silks, shot in remarkably gorgeous saturated color. Also on the plus side is the performance of Romain Duris ("The Beat that My Heart Skipped") as Moliere as well as the Elmire Jourdain (wife of M. Jourdain who has hired Moliere to teach him the fine points of acting and seduction so that he can seduce another woman) of the perpetually sexy and sultry Laura Morente whose revealing bodice causes her husband untold consternation.
Duris plays Moliere in the grand style: artificial, over-the-top as if he were in a Moliere farce. In most movies this would be completely out of place but here it works as the writers have incorporated pieces of several Moliere plays herein and Duris merely goes with the proverbial flow. His Moliere is at turns confident, sure of himself and at others completely at odds with the world and flummoxed by pretty much everything. Duris's Moliere is a fine tuned performance: a completely controlled one full of absurdity and irony yet always human and thoughtful.
"Moliere" goes on a bit too long and Tirard's attempt to make this a Moliere farce at times falls flat but nonetheless this is a good film with better performances and without a doubt a feast for the eyes if not always for the ears.
Colourful French Costume Drama November 29, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I had looked forward to watching "Moliere" but I must admit that I was slightly disappointed with the film. At times I found it hard to follow and the film never particularly gripped me at any stage. However "Moliere" was beautifully filmed and the sets and costumes were very impressive. The acting was hard to fault also. "Moliere" is a film loosely based on the early life of the eponymous French playwright who gets caught up in a web of deceit while under the employ of a French aristocrat. He commits adultery with this aristocrat's wife while the aristocrat is surrepticiously trying to woo a more beautiful younger woman. Needless to say this causes all manner of confusion and leads to many complications which are unravelled at the end. Many will undoubtedly enjoy this film, but I didn't particularly like it.
Indiscretions November 28, 2007
Amusing film with a take on all of Moliere's plays wrapped up into one. At times farcical and often very witty, the acting didn't always convince me. Costumes and setting though are faultless and splendid.
Good entertainment.
Great moments, but I've seen this plot before. November 13, 2007
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
This is a thoroughly enjoyable film, but it runs on the old premise that writers can never come up with anything original- they must have had a terrible experience which was then wrung out into verse or prose. I endured Moliere for A level- never quite took to rhyming couplets with 12 beats per line. However the life and death of the man was fascinating.
This would be the bit that the biographies didn't mention. I recognise chunks of Tartuffe of course (here Moliere dresses up as a priest)- I think Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme too.
Romain Duris as the man himself turns out a chaplinesque performance of pratfalls and grimaces. Fabrice Luchini as the M. Jourdain/Orgon etc figure is always a class act (he played the baddie in the remake of Le Bossu).Edouard Baer makes a convincing penniless aristo con artist. Overall the tone is much gentler than Moliere was himself to uppity bourgeois who tried to better themselves. Definitely worth a look.
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