A rather talky adaptation of a play by Moliere, this for the most part feels like a creaky and cut-price version of Cyrano de Bergerac: a clever man helping two young lovers be together through his wit and trickery.
This lead character, Scapin, goes back to a popular Italian character from the 1600s, "Scapini", who is largely unfamiliar to an English audience, so I got the feeling I was missing out on references to a past that is not depicted and which I have no knowledge of. On top of that, the humour is very wordy, and a great deal seems lost in translation, so I don't know if it's much funnier in the original, but I found very little to laugh at and the whole affair a little dull.
It's not a badly-made film at all, but hard to recommend and instantly forgettable.
Plot summary
Octave has married Hyacinthe during the absence of Argante, his father.
Director
Top cast
Stéphane Bébert as Le jeune voleur
Tech specs
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU 954.29 MB
1202*720
French 2.0
NR
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