Volume 27, Number 3 · March 6, 1980

Molière Imaginaire

By Vernon Young
Molière Television, January 1980
written and directed by Ariane Mnouchkine, photography by Bernard Zitzermann. New York Film Festival, October 4 and October 6, 1979; Public

The closing passage of Molière, a four-and-a-quarter-hour film biography, contains one of the more remarkable extended metaphors I have seen in a motion picture.



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