Would-Be Gentleman [Le Bourgeois gentilhomme]
- Release Year
- 1968
- Runtime
- 2h 10m
- Genres
- Comedy
- TV Movie
- Directed By
- Pierre Badel
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.
