Biopics are notorious for flopping about like landbound fish in their efforts to digest someone’s whole existence in two hours. Director Laurent Tirard doesn’t even bother trying with Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, aka Molière (here played by The Beat That My Heart Skipped’s Romain Duris). Instead, he fries up a ‘What if…?’ omelette, attempting to plug a gap in the 17th-century French playwright’s otherwise well-charted life. Then a 22-year-old failed actor, Molière left no trace of what he got up to in the months that followed his hounding out of Paris by furious creditors.
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