Fabrice Luchini: “Molière is in life. It's familiar, it's organic"

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a special file on Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known as Molière.

A hard-pressed actor who became the king's comedian, court darling and object of cabals, he spans the centuries: his work plays and replays an eternal human comedy.

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Moliere!”

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- What was your first contact with Molière?

Fabrice LUCHINI.

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There is not a theater course worthy of the name that does not require its students to play Molière.

For me, this was the case with Jean-Laurent Cochet.

But the question raises another: why is this test obvious, necessary?

Louis Jouvet, in his admiration for the 17th century, saw Molière as a pinnacle of Latinity, something that three hundred years later continued to shake us, to resound with its power.

Why do we teach Molière?

For a thousand reasons, the main ones of which seem to me to be the genius of...

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