Personalities and Molière

Personalities and Molière

Michel BOUQUET and Noël MAMERE show the armchair of Argan and the decor in which the actor plays. Michel Bouquet reveals the role of this chair and the link that can be made between the character of Molière and Louis XIV who became at the end of his life the prey of Mme de MAINTENON, doctors and was victim of the fatigue of power. Molière died in the fourth performance and sent a final message to the king.

Personalities and Molière

Michel BOUQUET thinks that it takes breath and voice to play Molière. To this must be added a great lucidity. Molière is the most lucid being in the world, the most balanced and the craziest, this is the year of suffering. In the worst moments of crisis that reveals his suffering his liucidity is still there.

Personalities and Molière

Jean Le POULAIN succeeded in the challenge of mixing the personality, the life, the character of a universal character and which gave him this painful dimension that brings laughter, He managed to show the ridicule of man while exalting him. He may be the only author who has done it.

Personalities and Molière

In front of several viewers, Louis SEIGNER talks about his role as Argan of Molière’s "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme" which he played enormously. He tells that he has played this role so much that he ends up feeling at home in the room setting He then defends his character that he likes to make sympathetic.

Personalities and Molière

It is in Nanterre during a rehearsal with Daniel AUTEUIL that we find Jean-Pierre VINCENT the director of the "Fourberies de Scapin" by Molière. While Daniel AUTEUIL rehearses the scene of the werewolf, Jean-Pierre VINCENT highlights it by explaining to the actor how the dramatic intensity rises crescendo and passes from fear to a guilt that could be described as judicial. He encourages him to think of the plague that would have invaded the palace of Avignon.

Personalities and Molière

Roger PLANCHON defines Molière as a true generous closer to Sganarelle than to Don Juan. He has an honesty and respects the thought of those who disagree with him which is rare.

Personalities and Molière

After talking about the silence, Philippe TORRETON who currently plays Scapin in the "Fourberies de Scapin" at the Comédie Française says a few words about this testamentary play by MOLIÈRE "farce noire terrible". He compares the character of Scapin to Charlot.

Personalities and Molière

Michel FIELD interviews Jacques LASSALLE, director of the "Dom Juan" by MOLIERE, performed in the courtyard of the Popes' Palace. He says that it is there that he saw the play for the first time 40 years ago, when he was sixteen years old, in a direction of Jean VILAR. That’s when he knew he wanted to make his life in the theater.

Personalities and Molière

Jacques CHARON maintains that the questions asked by Molière as God and the afterlife are very modern concerns. He draws a parallel with the question of religion today, which is trying to modernize things so as not to lose devotees. He feels close to Sganarelle because he is the common sense of the people.

Personalities and Molière

Interview of Roger PLANCHON on the character of Don Juan and on Molière, writer of conviction.

Personalities and Molière

The young actress Marina Foïs, 16, talks about her collaboration with the director Jean Marc Brisset for the play "L'école des femmes", and she explains how she was brought to work with him. There she played her first role in the theatre, that of Agnès. This is his first television interview.