Laurent Tirard

Laurent Tirard: 'If you were an actor, you weren't allowed to be buried in a cemetery. You had to die in a ditch...what happened when Molière died was that the church refused to bury him. But because the king liked him very much, he found a way.'

Deluxe tribute to the playwright gets by, surprisingly, as much by romantic poignancy as farce...it's hard to dislike a picture so in Love with its subject.