The Miser

1980 [FRENCH]

Action / Comedy

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 70% · 1 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 70% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.6/10 10 5638 5.6K

daughter parent child relationship greed based on play or musical money revenge

Plot summary

The children of Harpagon, Cléante and his sister Elise, are each in love but they still haven’t spoken to their father yet. Harpagon is a miser who wants to choose the right man and the right woman for his children. Based on Molière’s play.

Director

Louis de Funès Photo
Louis de Funès

Top cast

Louis de Funès Photo
Louis de Funès as Harpagon
Hervé Bellon Photo
Hervé Bellon as Valére
Georges Audoubert Photo
Georges Audoubert as Anselme
Micheline Bourday Photo
Micheline Bourday as Dame Claude
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1.09 GB
1204*720
French 2.0
NR
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24 fps
2 hr 1 min
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2.03 GB
1792*1072
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles us   ro  
24 fps
2 hr 1 min
Seeds 10

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by chouan

Molière would have approved

Louis de Funès was certainly a shoo-in for the role of the irascible, mean and greedy Harpagon. The setting is somehow bizarre, but Molière's text is scrupulously respected. Filmed theater is usually taboo among movie critics and amateurs, but this experiment is both pleasurable and successful.If you want to discover Molière, this is the movie to see.
Reviewed by guisreis 5 / 10

Thw idea of preserving stage spirit failed

Adapting a literary source to another medium requires some work, it is not just copying it. Molière's play has a brilliant text, but this attempt to translate it to a film keeping the traits of theater was a serious failure. Both in the kind of set (not only simple but explicitly suggesting it is a stage) and in the way of acting (overacting, often campy), the conception of tgis movie is made clear, but it does not work.
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