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Would-Be Gentleman (1968)
Directed by Pierre Badel
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.
Length 130 minutes
Actors
Michel Serrault | Rosy Varte | Daniel Ceccaldi | Jean-Pierre Darras | Roger Carel | Henri Virlojeux | Jacques Legras | Michel Creton | Georges Audoubert | Annick Blancheteau | René Bouloc | Xavier Depraz | Philippe Etesse | Catherine Hiegel | Tania Torrens | Armand Babel | Pierre Devevey | Michel Morano | Anne-Marie Sanial | Marc Vento | Jean-Marie Humily | Nathalie Bréhal