Molière
Reading A O Scott's robustly unfavorable review of Laurent Tirard's Molière yesterday morning, I reconsidered seeing the picture, but in the end I stuck to my plans. My response was so different from Mr Scott's that I can only conclude that his French isn't very good. I will say that Molière is a movie for people who are already familiar with the great French writer's oeuvre. It is witty in a way that the English rarely are and we Americans never. This is not to say that it's empty or stylized; if anything, it fills Molière's classical vessels with strong contemporary sentiment. Perhaps that is what Mr Scott meant by saying that the movie seems "designed for immediate obsolescence." But I loved it.
¶ Molière.
