Cycling with Moliere

  • Fabrice Luchini: Serge Tanneur
  • Lambert Wilson: Gauthier Valence
  • Maya Sansa: Francesca
  • Camille Japy: Christine
  • Ged Marlon: Meynard
  • Stéphan Wojtowicz: Taxi driver
  • Annie Mercier Tamara
  • Christine Murillo: Mme Françon
  • Josiane Stoléru: Raphaelle Puisaye
  • Laurie Borde Soules: Zoé
  • Édith Le Merdy: Mme Bichet
  • Patrick Bonnel: Roussel
  • Philippe du Janerand: stage director
  • Jean -Charles Delaume: Philinte actor
  • Olivia Algazi: Mme Ramirez
  • Julie -Anne Roth: Betty
  • Gilles Treton: Rizal

Molière on the bike is a French film by Philippe Le Guay drama from the year 2013.

Action

Actor Gauthier Valence, as the brain specialist celebrates great success in the mostly female audience just in the soap opera Docteur Morange wants the theater to stage Moliere's Misanthrope. To this end, he travels about la Rochelle on the Ile de Ré, where he visits his former colleague Serge. They both turned together once, however, have not been seen for six years. After a period of depression Serge pulled completely back from the film business. Now he lives a life and solitary in an inherited, run-down house. Serge is amazed to see Gauthier. When he learns that he wants to cast him in one piece, he flatly refuses. Gauthier gives him time to get used to the idea, and claims that he was in the area because he was looking for a house for himself and his girlfriend Christine. During the home visit Serge inquired about the piece, which will stage Gauthier - Alceste from the Misanthrope was always Serge's dream role and he reacts negatively, as Gauthier tells him to want him to receive the supporting role of Philinte. At the end both agree to exchange both roles in the event of a performance regularly.

Serge Gauthier persuaded to stay until the next day on the Ile de Ré. You start in Serge's house with the samples, with a coin flip result, Serge allowed to play first the role of Alceste. Serge will soon begin to quarrel with his game, he feels after all these years away from the stage but rusty. With time, its text and speech feeling improved, however. More flips continue to bring him the role of Alceste in the samples. In the end he may Gauthier convince another four days to remain in place until the weekend. After this time, he wants to decide whether he will play the piece or not.

Both men find time together to talk about more private things, and use the days on the island to get together to ride a bicycle. In another house tour, organized by the enterprising brokers Meynard, learn Gauthier and Serge know the Italian Francesca. Two men over you is initially reluctant, because she does not like an actor. The next day she apologizes to Serge for not doing the day before: you just plugged in a messy divorce and had spoken on the phone with her ​​husband. Also Gauthier learns Francesca now know better.

For a sample, Serge Gauthier and a short time later arguing violently because Gauthier, the must now play the Alceste, a particular word over and over again replaced by another. With Francesca both look later at Gauthier's series to Doctor Morange. Even though the soap opera is artistically undemanding, Serge Gauthier praised for his game. Shortly thereafter, Meynard calls and Serge starts a long phone call, in which he makes it clear that Meynard had not disturbed him, and he only saw Gauthier's series. Gauthier breaks up abruptly and Francesca shows from Serge's behavior disappointed, he loved it but to stand on Gauthier and duping him. An apology at Gauthier rejects Serge. As Serge praises at the rehearsals the next day Gauthier, has the enough. Because Serge treated him as a teacher and gives the impression of wanting to only exercise power over Gauthier, without being interested in the piece or the staging itself, going Gauthier. When the two meet again a little later, Serge finally agrees to play with Gauthier the piece. Both meet Francesca, spend time together at the beach and end up a little later in their home. Francesca and Serge like each other and dancing together, but goes Serge, as Gauthier wants to break. The next day, Francesca has disappeared from the site. Gauthier admits to be on the eve once again returned to her and she to have found weeping. You have pounced on him and both would have slept together. Serge shows outwardly uninterested.

To sign the contract Gauthier's agent Tamara, Christine and other members of the theater coming to the Île de Ré. Serge appears by bicycle in a Alceste costume. When he intended to give a taste of his skills with the coin toss and Gauthier assigns him the role of Philinte, he insists, to be able to play the Alceste - not only on the sample, but also later during the actual performance. It comes to a head and Serge Gauthier and go at each other. At the end Gauthier throws him out and goes Serge, with a final word from the misanthrope on the lips. At the premiere a few weeks later stumbles Gauthier as Alceste exactly over the text to which he has always recited wrong for the samples with Serge. The error brings him so much from the concept that the demonstration stops. Serge sits under its own on the beach on the Ile de Ré and says exactly this line of text without errors to himself.

Production

Molière on the bike based on an idea by Philippe Le Guay and Fabrice Luchini, who also took over the lead role of the film. Le Guay was inspired the figure of Serge the screenplay by Luchini. As the main character also Luchini lives rather deposited on the Ile de Ré and can recite the Misanthrope by heart; on his first visit to the island director Le Guay also like both characters in the film also fell off the bike in a swamp. The shooting took place in Ars -en- Ré on the Ile de Ré. Some scenes were filmed at the train station in La Rochelle. The theater scenes in the final came at the Théâtre de l'Atelier in Paris. The Filmbauten submitted by Françoise Dupertuis.

The movie was released on January 16, 2013 simultaneously in the Belgian and French cinemas, where he was seen in the French cinema of 1,000,962 visitors. He appeared on May 22, 2013 France to DVD. On 23 October 2013, the film under the Hof International Film Festival ran, it was shown in November, 2013 to 17th French Film Festival in Dresden and was seen in 2013 in Berlin as part of the French Film Week. German cinema release is on April 3, 2014.

Awards

Molière on the bike was nominated for César in 2014 for three prizes: Fabrice Luchini received a nomination for Best Actor, Philippe Le Guay for Best Original Screenplay and Jorge Arriagada for Best Film Music.

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