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27 April 2007 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »

- Sony Pictures Classics has given us the newest trailers and poster one sheet for Moliere. Written by Gregoire Vigneron and Laurent Tirard and directed by Laurent Tirard the period pic shall open in New York and Los Angeles on July 27, 2007.  1644, Paris. 22-year-old Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, also known as Molière, is not yet the writer that history recognizes as the father & true master of comic satire, author of "the Misanthrope and Tartuffe, and a dramatist to rank alongside Shakespeare & Sophocles. Far from it. He is in fact, a failed actor. His Illustrious Theatre Troupe, founded the previous year, is bankrupt. Hounded by creditors, Molière is thrown into jail, released, then swiftly imprisoned again. When the jailors  finally let him go, he disappears.  The combined efforts of historians have unearthed no trace of him before his reappearance, several months later, when his troupe begins touring the provinces - a tour that will last for thirteen years, …

1 article from 2007