Would-Be Gentleman
- Movies
- 1968-12-28
- FR
- Released
- 2h 10m
- FR
- Comedy - TV Movie
Production
Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française
Storyline
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.