Moli%C3%A8re (2007 film)

Molire is a 2007 film by French director Laurent Tirard and starring Romain Duris as Molire. It was released in Europe in January 2007 and in the United States in July 2007. It was entered into the 29th Moscow International Film Festival where Fabrice Luchini won the Silver George for Best Actor. The screenplay was cowritten by Tirard and Grgoire Vigneron.

Jourdain, a married man with two daughters, hopes to use this talent to ingratiate himself with Climne Ludivine Sagnier, a recently widowed aristocrat with whom he has become obsessed. He hopes to perform a short play he has written for the occasion. Molire, however, has been presented to the family and staff of Monsieur Jourdain as Tartuffe, a priest who is to serve as tutor for the Jourdains younger daughter. As the story progresses Molire proceeds to fall in love with Jourdains neglected wife, Elmire Laura Morante. Subplots involve the love life of the Jourdains older daughter, and the intrigues of the penniless and cynical aristocrat Dorante douard Baer at the expense of the gullible Jourdain.The story is mostly fictional and many scenes follow actual scenes and text in Molires plays including Tartuffe, Le Misanthrope, The Imaginary Invalid, and Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, whose principal character is also named Jourdain. It is implied that these actual events in his life inspired the plays of his maturity. ........

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