Don’t hate me, because I know a lot of you liked this… but I found it dull. There are two years “missing” from the historical record of Moliere’s life, and the film’s idea is that he was recruited to teach a pretentious bourgeois to act… and in the process ends up in the plots of many of his later plays. The point is, the actor playing Moliere had BAD WIGS and annoying teeth (strangely, in the behind the scenes interview he was kind of cute), and the women’s costuming didn’t really excite me (it was okay, with a bit too many patterned brocades and some weird choices — like the bourgeois’s love interest’s gowns fit less well than the female extras in the same scene).
His teeth are really bugging me now…