Film
Would-Be Gentleman
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.
Overview
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 SerraultM. Jourdain
- Rosy VarteMme Jourdain
- Daniel CeccaldiDorante
- Jean-Pierre DarrasLe maître de ballet
- Roger CarelLe maître de musique
- Henri VirlogeuxLe maître de philosophie
- Jacques LegrasLe maître-tailleur
- Michel CretonCovielle
