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| Based on an unpublished work by Sacha Guitry |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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