Film
Would-Be Gentleman
1968Directed by Pierre Badel
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- Released
- Runtime
- 2h 10m
About Would-Be Gentleman
- Comedy
- TV Movie
Synopsis
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.
- Director
- Pierre Badel
- Writer
- Molière
- Original title
- Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
