Les Fourberies de Scapin (2017)
• September 20th, 2017 • 1h 45min
Comedy
Overview
The action is set in Naples, opening a door onto an imagined maritime world stretching towards the Orient. Faced with two authoritarian fathers, two sons, both of whom are thwarted lovers, turn to the crafty Scapin, who is driven by a mad desire for revenge. The character is a double of Scaramouche, the Italian actor of the adventurous life whom Molière admired: “to tell you the truth, there are few things that are impossible for me, when I put my mind to them” declares the buffoonish servant whose name, as Denis Podalydès points out, derives his from the Italian scappare which means “to escape”, “to scamper off”. Scapin is beaten with a stick at one point but also gets his own back and, against a background of ransom demands and paternal contradictions, he comes up with an avalanche of stratagems and other tricks, which Molière excels in depicting.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Sherlock Holmes et l'Aventure du Diamant Bleu
Released on: 2023-01-01
Mystery, Comedy
Sherlock and Doctor Watson are back and investigate the curious disappearance of an exceptional diam...
The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
Released on: 1974-06-06
Drama, Music, Comedy, History, TV Movie
In their songs, comedy and exuberant music, a travelling theatre company give a fiercely polemic acc...
Actresses
Released on: 2007-12-26
Comedy, Drama
Marcelline is an actress. Forty, single and childless, she begins rehearsals for Turgenev’s A Month ...
George Dandin
Released on: 1999-06-07
Comedy
Theater play "George Dandin" played by the "Comédie française" in 1999.
Get Over It
Released on: 2001-03-08
Comedy, Romance
When Berke Landers, a popular high school basketball star, gets dumped by his life-long girlfriend, ...
L'abito nuovo
Released on: 1964-01-20
Comedy, Drama
In Naples, where the modest clerk Michele Crispucci lives with his daughter Assuntina, his ex-wife a...
Il contratto
Released on: 1981-04-06
Comedy
Geronta Sebezio is revered by his fellow villagers for his miraculous ability to bring the dead back...
Shakespeare in Love
Released on: 1998-12-11
Romance, History, Comedy
Young William Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, 'Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daugh...
Les Tontons farceurs
Released on: 2022-11-13
Comedy
July 14, 1962. It's the excitement at the famous cabaret "Le Glamour". The alluring singer Lola-Lola...
Espèces menacées
Released on: 2001-05-07
Comedy
An accountant, presumed honest, inadvertently finds 7 million francs in his bag and decides to chang...
The Flying Classroom
Released on: 2003-01-16
Comedy, Drama, Family
A boy who was once a perpetual outcast finds friends in a new boarding school. United with his new p...
The Taste of Others
Released on: 2000-03-01
Drama, Comedy, Romance
Unpolished and ultra-pragmatic industrialist Jean-Jacques Castella reluctantly attends Racine's trag...
Shrek the Third
Released on: 2007-05-17
Fantasy, Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
The King of Far Far Away has died and Shrek and Fiona are to become King & Queen. However, Shrek wan...