Moliere

"Moliere" - 3.25 stars ***+ - Sande

Good movie, good rental. If you speak French, great, otherwise be prepared to read.

The nice thing about reading a movie is that you can do it with the sound off and play your own music as a soundtrack.

Basically its a fictionalized history of the famous French playwright.

The movie spans a segment of Moliere's life which his biographers are not able to account for, a gap in his known historical time line.

The movie fills in this gap with a strong story that suggests the artistic growth of the writer and the people surrounding that movement. Naturally it involves love, sex, deception, infidelity, farce, humor, wit, royalty, beautiful mansions, settings, and costumes, and beautiful looking people all in the underlying style of Moliere's actual work.

Very nice job. If you liked "Ridicule" you will like "Molieire."

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