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The Dinner Game
Why this pick
Like Girault’s Molière adaptation, it is a tightly constructed French social farce driven by vanity, scheming, and escalating misunderstandings, with a crisp theatrical rhythm.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE1980 2h 5m FRA
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Why this pick
For the broad, physical comic energy of Louis de Funès: this moves from a stubborn bourgeois character into exuberant escalating farce without losing its sharp eye for social pretension.
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Oscar
Why this pick
Louis de Funès anchors another fast, door-slamming bourgeois comedy, full of money troubles, family secrets, and mounting domestic chaos—an especially close match for The Miser’s comic tempo.
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The Closet
Why this pick
A more modern French workplace farce whose humor comes from an ordinary man trapped by appearances and social maneuvering, retaining the neat plotting and satirical bite of classical comedy.
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The Discord
Why this pick
This Louis de Funès comedy turns domestic and professional friction into increasingly unruly farce, making it a good fit for the performance-driven, conflict-fueled comedy of The Miser.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The children of Harpagon, Cléante and his sister Elise, are each in love but they still haven’t spoken to their father yet. Harpagon is a miser who wants to choose the right man and the right woman for his children.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Louis de Funès
Harpagon
Michel Galabru
Maître Jacques
Claude Gensac
Frosine
Guy Grosso
Brindavoine
Michel Modo
La merluche
Max Montavon
Maître Simon
Henri Génès
Le commissaire
Madeleine Barbulée
La mère de Marianne