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The Misanthrope
Le Misanthrope2000
A precise and melancholic exploration of the cost of total honesty in a world built on beautiful lies
- Francis Girod,Jean-Pierre Miquel
- 2h 15m
- November 14, 2000
Overview
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.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- November 14, 2000
- Original language
- French
- Spoken languages
- French
- Production
- Euripide Productions,La Comédie-Française,Néria Productions,Le Centre National De La Cinematographie,France•3,Le Théâtre Marigny,Vieux Colombier
- Cast
- Alberte Aveline,Michel Favory,Isabelle Gardien,Denis Podalydès,Laurent d'Olce,Clotilde de Bayser,Laurent Natrella,Christian Gonon,Guillaume Gallienne,Alain Lahaye
- Director
- Francis Girod,Jean-Pierre Miquel
- Writer
- Michèle Belhomme,Molière
- Music
- Didier Riey
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
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