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The Misanthrope (2000)
Directed by Francis Girod, Jean-Pierre Miquel
“A precise and melancholic exploration of the cost of total honesty in a world built on beautiful lies”
Comedy · 2h 15m
Célimène, a beautiful young widow, chooses to keep her many suitors hoping in order to preserve her freedom, even though she is drawn to one of them, Alceste. An idealist, Alceste refuses to play the social game; he seeks to persuade the young woman to abandon her strategy and give herself over to an exclusive love. Theater play "Le misanthrope" played by the "Comédie française" in 2000. Rather than a simple recording of a live theater performance, this version was explicitly structured as a television movie. It blended cinematic camera work with the theatrical script.
Cast
Alberte Aveline
Michel Favory
Isabelle Gardien
Denis Podalydès
Laurent d'Olce
Clotilde de Bayser
Laurent Natrella
Christian Gonon
Guillaume Gallienne
Crew
- Director
- Francis Girod, Jean-Pierre Miquel
- Writer
- Michèle Belhomme, Molière
- Original Music Composer
- Didier Riey
- Editor
- Hugues Orduna
- Producer
- Jean-Pierre Dusséaux, Daniel Toscan du Plantier, Frédéric Sichler
Details
- Original title
- Le Misanthrope
- Release date
- 2000-11-14
- Runtime
- 2h 15m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- French
- Production
- Vieux Colombier, Le Théâtre Marigny, France•3, Néria Productions, Euripide Productions, La Comédie-Française, Le Centre National De La Cinematographie