Sunday, December 23, 2012
COMIC
Today's Romain Duris film is the costume comedy
There is, evidently, a period of time of two months to two years when there is no accounting for Moliere's life. The great french comic writer. Farce.
This film has the audacity to pump up the history with a bit of speculation which not only tells a story to fill in the time but dares to imply that much of Moliere's inspiration comes from this period and a romance with a certain woman.
A lot of reviews of the film consider this to be sacrilegious and so they found ways to criticize it on other grounds. Or something. The reviews are bi-polar.
Me? I just see it as a Duris film and he gets to have long hair and period costumes. It is funny and fast moving and he has a good cast to back him up.
It does presume to say that this is how Moliere got inspired but I am not french and certainly not a literary critic so I don't care about that part.
I saw this before and enjoyed it as much if not more the second time. I watched a bit of the "making of" film on the disc. Not bad.
I will give it a 4 out of Netflix5. It is not a must to see yet a third time but I would not mind.
