L'Avare (film) explained

L'Avare
Director:	Louis de Funès Jean Girault
Producer:	Christian Fechner Bernard Artigues
Starring:	Louis de Funès
Music:	Jean Bizet
Cinematography:	Edmond Richard
Editing:	Michel Lewin
Distributor:	A.M.L.F, Columbia Pictures (North America)
Runtime:	125 minutes
Country:	France
Language:	French
Gross:	$18.3 million ^[1]

L'Avare is a 1980 French comedy film written and directed by Louis de Funès and Jean Girault, and starring de Funès. The English title of the film is The Miser. It is an adaptation of Molière's famous comedy L'Avare (The Miser).

De Funès tried to draw out the unhappy side of the character. Harpagon, unloved by humanity, is driven to an obsessive love of money.^[2]

Cast

• Louis de Funès: Harpagon
• : Cléante
• : Valère
• Michel Galabru: Maître Jacques
• : Anselme
• Claude Gensac: Frosine
• Claire Dupray: Élise, Miser's daughter
• : Marianne, Cléante's girlfriend
• Bernard Menez: La Flèche, Cléante's valet
• Henri Génès: the commissioner
• Michel Modo: la Merluche, Harpagon's attendant
• Guy Grosso: Brindavoine, Harpagon's attendant
• : Maître Simon
• : Dame Claude, the housemaid
• Madeleine Barbulée: Marianne's mother

Reception

The film is rated 70% Fresh by Rotten Tomatoes.

External links

• • • L'Avare (1980) Films de France

Notes and References

1. Web site: L\'Avare (1980) . JPBox-Office . 1980-03-28 . 2021-05-27.
2. Web site: L’Avare (1980) / The Miser / Louis de Funès /1980 / Film Review . Filmsdefrance.com . 2017-08-25 . 2021-05-27.