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Moliere DVD

PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) :: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment :: Released: 2008-01-22

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Moliere Summary Bubbling With Wit, Stellar Performances And Lavish Cinematography, molière Stars Multi-cesar®-nominated French Actor Romain Duris As Molière, A Down-and-out Actor-cum-playwright Up To His Ears In Debt. When The Wealthy Jourdain (cesar®-winner Fabrice Luchini) Offers To Cover That Debt (so That Molière's Theatrical Talents Might Help Jourdain Win The Heart Of A Certain Widowed Marquise), Hilarity Ensues. Disguised As A Priest, Molière Becomes A Guest In Jourdain's Palace On The Pretext Of Teaching Jourdain The Craft Of The Stage, Which Annoys His Wife, Elmire. But, Soon After, The Confrontation Between Elmire And Molière Turns Seductive. Too Busy To Notice, Jourdain Enlists The Aid Of A Well Connected And Scheming Acquaintance, To Help Him Pursue The Young Widow. Romantic Yearning, Human Foibles And Laughs Galore All Characterize Molière, A Delightful Film That Slyly Captures Your Heart.

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If most comedians secretly want to be tragedians, the famous, 17th century French actor-playwright Moliere was no exception, as is comically obvious in Moliere. Somewhat like Shakespeare In Love, Moliere is a work of fiction linking several of the bard’s most famous works with an imagined, personal experience leading to the writer’s inspiration. When we first meet Jean-Baptiste Poquelin--a.k.a. Moliere--he has been asked by the French king to perform something new as a show of gratitude for being given a theater. Moliere, best known for his comedies The Misanthrope and Tartuffe, is anxious to write a drama, but his royal fans (and, for that matter, everyone else) won’t hear of such a thing. Approached by a young woman who asks him to visit her dying mother, Moliere encounters an important woman from his past. From there, the story goes back in time many years prior: Moliere is rescued from debtor’s prison by the wealthy Monsieur Jourdain (Fabrice Luchini), who disguises the then-budding playwright as "Tartuffe," a tutor for his daughter. Jourdain provides his guest with room and board, for which Jourdain expects Moliere to teach him to perform the aristocrat’s own one-act play, written to impress a comely young widow (Ludivine Sagnier) the married Jourdaine hopes to seduce. While Jourdain, a self-improvement dilettante, fritters away his time, Moliere falls for the man’s neglected wife, Elmire (Laura Morante), a situation that clearly contains the seeds of Moliere’s future hit Tartuffe. Co-written and directed by Laurent Tirard, Moliere is one of those films about an artist that encourages a viewer familiar with its subject to connect the dots between story details and the artist’s real-world legacy. It’s a lot of fun, not to be taken too seriously, though the film’s real theme is that a writer’s voice is only authentic when it utilizes the writer’s natural gifts, and that comedy is really just another perspective on tragedy. --Tom Keogh

Moliere DVD Techincal Details Cast: Romain Duris, Laura Morante, Edouard Baer, Ludivine Sagnier
Director: Laurent Tirard
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Running Time: 120 mins
UPC: 043396214651
Binding: DVD
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Release Date: 2008-01-22
Region Code: 99
Specs: AC-3, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC

Language & Subtitles English (Unknown), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Original Language - Dolby Digital 5.1),