Would-Be Gentleman

Would-Be Gentleman(1968)

12/28/1968 (US)Comedy, TV Movie2h 10m
NR

Overview

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.

Pierre Badel

Director