Cinema: MOLIERE

Directed by Laurent Tirard, At selected cinemas, Cert PG.

Directed by Laurent Tirard, At selected cinemas, Cert PG.

Despite the leading presence of the eponymous hero, Moliere is not a biopic.

Taking a flight of fancy from the facts instead, Laurent Tirard’s film is more of a homage to France’s most famous dramatist.

With a fictional plot inspired more by Moliere’s plays than his biography, Tirard cleverly evokes the farcical form that Moliere invented in the Parisian court theatres of the 1600s.