Would-Be Gentleman

Would-Be Gentleman

1968 · 130 min · ★ 9.0 · Comedy, TV Movie

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.

Directed by Pierre Badel

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