Would-Be Gentleman
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2hrs
10mins
Directed by
Pierre Badel,
Starring
Michel Serrault,
Rosy Varte,
Daniel Ceccaldi,
Jean-Pierre Darras
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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.