Beaumarchais
Updated June 26, 2020 |
Infoplease Staff
Director: | Edouard Molinaro |
Writer: | Edouard Molinaro and Jean-Claude Brisville |
Director of Photography: | Michael Epp |
Editor: | Veronique Parnet |
Music: | Jean-Claude Petit |
Production Director: | Claude Parnet |
Producer: | Charles Gassot |
New Yorker Films; NR; 100 minutes | |
Release: | |
Cast: | Fabrice Luchini, Manuel Blanc, Sandrine Kiberlain, Michel Serrault, Jacques Weber, Michel Piccoli, Jean-François Balmer, Florence Thomassin and Isabelle Carré |
In French with English subtitles | |
Based on an unpublished work by Sacha Guitry |
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (Luchini) was a man of many talents. Not only was he a secret agent and a watchmaker, but he also wrote The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro. Given such a fascinating subject and era (late 18th-century France), one would expect an extraordinary tale, instead we get another lavish period piece that's more fluff than substance.
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