The Miser
1980 [FRENCH]
Action / Comedy
70%
TOMATOMETER
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70%
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Plot summary
Based on Molière's play. The children of Harpagon, Cléante and his sister Elise, are each in love but they still haven't spoken to their father yet. Harpagon is a miser who wants to choose the right man and the right woman for his children. When Cléante, at last, tries to speak to Harpagon, the old man informs the family that he wants to marry Marianne, the young girl loved by Cléante. Unaware of his son's sorrow, Harpagon doesn't understand why Cléante has become so angry with him.
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Movie Reviews
Molière would have approved
Thw idea of preserving stage spirit failed
Adapting a literary source to another medium requires some work, it is not just copying it. Molière's play has a brilliant text, but this attempt to translate it to a film keeping the traits of theater was a serious failure. Both in the kind of set (not only simple but explicitly suggesting it is a stage) and in the way of acting (overacting, often campy), the conception of tgis movie is made clear, but it does not work.