What would Moliere say? . Sometimes at seminars on the history of world literature, our teacher brings films. Of course, it’s better than reading another literary masterpiece. And recently she brought this movie...
Moliere wrote wonderful comedies, and the eternal Tartuf is one of them. Reading it is easy, time flies by quickly. The story of a crook, a swindler under a monastic cassock, who by deceit and treachery tries to trick a rich philistine around his finger, taking possession of his house and on the way still his wife. But, as is customary for classic comedy, a wise monarch saves a poor family and jails a scoundrel.
What about the movie? But the film made me fidget on hard chairs.
To begin with, the film goes exactly the text, excluding the arias of characters. So you'll get a good idea of Moliere's work. (That's probably why the teacher showed us the film.)
Next. During the viewing, vulgarity was striking, or not... a slight hint of eroticism, let’s say. If in the dialogue of Tartuf and Dorina it looked like a joke and was forgivable, then in the scene in the gazebo there was already too much. There is nothing in comedy that we see. There are passionate, passionate confessions of Tartuf, his meaningful words. But no one expected such liberties. And yes, Orgon in comedy clearly does not hesitate, and unlike the cinematic.
Well, maybe at least young people will watch this movie, laugh at the dialogue and the action. At least that's how I get to know this piece.
A little bit of a cut: the image of Tartuf performed by Boyarsky. Tartuf in my imagination was an old man with an unpleasant appearance, in a cassock. And here we see the handsome Boyarsky, for the sake of such a person it is not a sin to accept the decision of his father. And where without our "musketeer" did not show riding skills, albeit occasionally.
It was a funny movie with costumes. Roles are not remembered. Some people just push away. But the idea of a crook, of being fooled, of the blindness of the fooled, was shown for sure. But if we go back to “Tartuf”, it is better to go to the bookshelf.
P.S.
My roommate for the whole film and said, looking at Boyarsky: “What a man!”. . "
5 out of 10