Marquise is a drama about the rise and fall of a beauteous actress. As cheerfully portrayed by Sophie Marceau, the eponymous heroine is an engagingly ribald, but perhaps rather too modern, character. She rises from an impoverished background to become a favourite of the Sun King, Louis XIV, and the mistress of the celebrated Racine, who wrote roles especially for her; but her fate, in the end, is a tragic one.

The bourgeois gentleman

1982

French

5.3

♡ 1

Action

Comedy

molière

Roger Coggio Director

Didier Bourdon as

Ludmila Mikaël as Dorimène

François Rostain as Escrimeur 2

Etienne Chicot as Le maître musique

In this adaptation of the play by Molière, Monsieur Jourdain, social climber, nouveau rich but naive, dreams of being recognized in high society. He hires masters of music, dance, philosophy. He has gone mad with thoughts of honors, decorations, and power.

Bicycling with Molière

2013

French

6.6

♡ 3

world masterpiece theater

Philippe Le Guay Director

Camille Japy as Christine

Lambert Wilson as Gauthier Valence

Édith Le Merdy as Madame Bichet - l'hôtelière

Fabrice Luchini as Serge Tanneur

Serge Tanneur is at the pinnacle of his acting career when he decides to turn his back on show business and become a hermit living off of France’s Atlantic coast. Three years later, Gauthier Valence, a beloved TV actor, shows up on the island to offer Serge a role in his directorial debut – a rendition of Molière’s classic play, “The Misanthrope”. Serge refuses at first, but then suggests that they rehearse the first scene and after five days he’ll decide if he wants to dothe play or not. What ensues is a battle of brawn and wits and peculiar encounters with a hotel maid who longs to be a pornstar and an Italian divorcée.

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Marquise

The bourgeois gentleman

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