Molière
Director: Laurent Tirard
Genre: Comedy, World cinema, Romance Film, Romantic drama, Romantic comedy, Drama
Year: 2007
Country: France
Language: French Language
Starring: Romain Duris, Ludivine Sagnier, Laura Morante, François Civil, Fabrice Luchini, Édouard Baer, Fanny Valette
Molière is a film by French director Laurent Tirard. It stars Romain Duris as the eponymous playwright. It was released in Europe in January 2007 and in the United States in July 2007.
Tirard both directed the movie and co-wrote the screenplay with Grégoire Vigneron.
The film focuses on several months of Molière's early life that are unknown to scholars. It begins in 1658, when the French actor and playwright returns to Paris with his theatrical troupe to perform in the theater the king has given him. Most of the film is in the form of a flashback to 1645. Following an unsuccessful run as a tragic actor, Molière is released from debtor's prison by Monsieur Jourdain (Fabrice Luchini), a wealthy commoner with social pretensions, who agrees to pay the young actor's debts if Molière teaches him to act.
Jourdain, already a married man with two daughters, hopes to use this talent to ingratiate himself with Célimène (Ludivine Sagnier), a recently widowed beauty with whom he has become obsessed, by performing a short play he has written for the occasion. Molière, however, who has been presented to the family and staff of Monsieur Jourdain as Tartuffe, a priest who is supposedly to serve as
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