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Would-Be Gentleman

★ 9/10 · 1 votes 1968 2h 10m Released

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Le Bourgeois gentilhomme satirizes attempts at social climbing and the bourgeois personality, poking fun both at the vulgar, pretentious middle-class and the vain, snobbish aristocracy. The title is meant as an oxymoron: in Molière's France, a "gentleman" was by definition nobly born, and thus there could be no such thing as a bourgeois gentleman.

Cast

Michel Serrault M. Jourdain Rosy Varte Mme Jourdain Daniel Ceccaldi Dorante Jean-Pierre Darras Le maître de ballet Roger Carel Le maître de musique Henri Virlogeux Le maître de philosophie