Jean-Baptist Poquelin (Romain Duris), later know to the world as Molière, spent time in debtors' prison as a young man when his fledgling theatre company went bankrupt. According to this film, Molière was bailed out by the wealthy Monsieur Jourdain (Fabrice Luchini) who has a plan.
M. Jourdain brings Molière into his home disguised as Tartuffe, an austere priest, but actually Molière must redeem himself by helping Jourdain seduce the beautiful young widow, Marquise Célimène (Ludivine Sagnier) with a one-act play. Of course, since Jourdain is married to Elmire (Laura Morante), everything must be kept hush-hush, and so the guise of the priest.
But things turn even more complicated when the young Molière and Elmire fall in love. And then there's the scheming Count Dorante (Edouard Baer) who conspires to marry his son Thomas (Gillian Petrovsky) to Jourdain's daughter Henriette (Fanny Valette) even though Henriette is in love with her music teacher Valere (Gonzague Requillart).
Directed by Laurent Tirard.
Subtitles.
My personal rating: B
M. Jourdain brings Molière into his home disguised as Tartuffe, an austere priest, but actually Molière must redeem himself by helping Jourdain seduce the beautiful young widow, Marquise Célimène (Ludivine Sagnier) with a one-act play. Of course, since Jourdain is married to Elmire (Laura Morante), everything must be kept hush-hush, and so the guise of the priest.
But things turn even more complicated when the young Molière and Elmire fall in love. And then there's the scheming Count Dorante (Edouard Baer) who conspires to marry his son Thomas (Gillian Petrovsky) to Jourdain's daughter Henriette (Fanny Valette) even though Henriette is in love with her music teacher Valere (Gonzague Requillart).
Directed by Laurent Tirard.
Subtitles.
My personal rating: B
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