BlazeLime Strong and Moving!

GurlyIamBeach Instant Favorite.

Breakinger A Brilliant Conflict

ChampDavSlim The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

TJW-3 I saw half of this film over 20 years ago, and only once -- and still many scenes are indelibly imprinted in my mind. Moliere's mother picking lice out of his hair...the cavalry attacking student Mardi Gras revellers...starving beggars eating a horse raw...thick stage makeup flaking off a sweating actor...and all sorts of other real and surreal details of 17th century life.That this compelling and unique film should have disappeared for a quarter century when so much utter CRAP has appeared on tape and DVD is appalling. I hope rumors of its release on DVD are true. And make it available in the USA, please!

novagrl I love this movie and have been searching for it without much success. I've been to Theatre Du Soleil's website. I've Google-ed till the cows came home. I've even gone to the French Ebay! With the exception of a few university libraries that will not sell, I found no commercial outlets. I REALLY want a copy for my very own. Does anybody have one? And/or info?

donsmithers It is a disgrace that such a fine film is not yet available to purchase, either on DVD or VHS. Would someone 'out there' do something about this deplorable situation. It is bad enough that there is so much crap for sale as DVDs, but when a superb film comes along, why are film goers to be denied the ability to see it and to purchase a copy? Make this film available. The work speaks for itself!

N.L. The brilliance of the film, Moliere, is due to Ariane Mnouchkine's direction and creative genius. She is one of the best stage directors working in the world today. Her highly visual, physical and multi-cultural adaptations of the classics with her own Theatre du Soleil in Paris regularly set new heights in theatrical achievement.This film tells the life story of France's greatest dramatist with all the intimacy and crucial understanding that a fellow theatre-person can bring. The scene of Moliere's death while he was performing on stage - followed by a slow-motion, but intensely frantic race on a flight of stairs by his fellow performers carrying his dying body - will be one of the few images that stay with me for the rest of my life.I saw this film on public television in the late '70s and have spent the last 20 years trying to find a copy to purchase.