L'avare (1980)

Original title

L'Avare

Directed by

Jean Girault, Louis de Funès

Genre

comedy film

Country

France

Runtime

2h

Rated

6

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 466 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An old miser named Harpagon loves his money more than anything. He schemes to keep his gold safe while trying to arrange marriages for his children that will benefit his own wealth.

fast-pacedcomedicfarcicalsatiricaltheatricalexaggeratedlivelysharp

What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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