Movie Details
Original Language:French
Production Companies:Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française
Would-Be Gentleman
DirectorPierre Badel
Plot
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.
