Would-Be Gentleman

1968 | 2 h 10mins |U/A 13+| Comedy | TV Movie

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.

Starring: Michel Serrault , Rosy Varte , Daniel Ceccaldi.