Monsieur de Pourceaugnac is a 1985 French drama film directed by Michel Mitrani that is based on the 1669 play of the same name by Molière. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival.
Cast Michel Galabru - Monsieur de Pourceaugnac Roger Coggio - Sbrigani Fanny Cottençon - Julie Jérôme Anger - Eraste Jean-Paul Roussillon - Oronte Rosy Varte - Nérine Anne-Marie Besse - Lucette Jean-Pierre Castaldi - The Swiss Michel Aumont - Le premier médecin Paul Le Person - Le second médecin Michel Mitrani - Louis XIV Jean-Louis Bindi - Un chanteur Étienne Lestringant - Un chanteur Paule Andrée Nirouet - Une chanteuse Jean-Paul Barbier - Un danseur
Reception The film was described as an "attempt not without elegance to adapt" Molière's play. Cinéma wrote that Mitrani had "used various techniques to solve the problem of adaptation, and his film [was] pleasantly striking in its modernism".
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