Moliere

This film is an awesome account of a French playwright. He leads a troupe who has fell on bad luck and gets put into prison. Among Molière's best-known works are Le Misanthrope (The Misanthrope), L'École des femmes (The School for Wives), Tartuffe ou L'Imposteur, (Tartuffe or the Imposter), L'Avare (The Miser), Le Malade imaginaire (The Imaginary Invalid), and Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (The Bourgeois Gentleman). I copied that last sentence from Wikipedia so all of you theater lovers out there could link to some of his most popular plays. His birth name was Jean-Baptiste Poquelin and he went by his stage name, Moliere. He is known for his comedies and it is funny because the film touches on his want to write tragedies and his struggle with realizing that writing comedy was his talent.

Ok, back to the film. This is a really good film. He gets imprisoned, Sorry, he being Moliere(Romain Duris), and his bond is payed by a wealthy man named M. Jourdain(Fabrice Luchini) in exchange for Moliere teaching him acting skills. Jourdain wishes to impress a young woman with his acting abilities and Moliere falls in love with Jourdain's wife. In the end everything ends well and Moliere leaves Jourdain's home to pursue his acting. Anyway, that is all I can tell you about that.

I really like period films because they give you as the viewer a glimpse into what the past may have been like. Being a history buff, I like to step back in time and witness daily activities of a long past time. It is a well written story and it somewhat follows the life of a legendary playwright. I like the dramatic shot angles that bring the landscape into the shot to give a certain romance to the characters.

I strongly encourage everyone to see this film. It is incredible to see into the lives of artist and how and where they draw inspiration from.