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"Beaumarchaise"
1997
Directed by Edouard Molinaro

From the director of La Cage aux Folles comes an elegant, wicked, witty portrait of the legendary French playwright Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais. Author of the comic plays The Marriage of Figaro and The Barber of Seville, which were made into operas by Mozart and Rossini, Beaumarchais was also an inventor, playwright, diplomat, playboy and Royal spy. With Fabrice Luchini, Manuel Blanc, Sandrine Kiberlain and Michel Serrault. "Glorious! Giddy! Inspired! Light and fanciful…sparkles with wit" (LA Times). French with English subtitles.  100 minutes.