Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
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Beaumarchais is the watchmaker's son turned playwright who is most familiar to Western culture as the creator of Figaro, the central character is the famous Mozart and Rossini operas. That he was, but he was also at times a court conspirator, a champion of liberty, a defender of the weak, a lazy sybarite, a pretend aristocrat, a humorist, a ...
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel Fabrice Luchini (Actor), Manuel Blanc (Actor), Édouard Molinaro (Director, Writer) & 0 more Format: DVD 4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 100 ratings
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Synopsis. From "The Barber of Seville" to "The Marriage of Figaro", the "delirious decade" of Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais: unscrupulous businessman, visionary but self-interested politician, brave swashbuckler with word and sword, incorrigible lover of women and litigation but a ferocious defender of human rights, inventor of genius ...
Beaumarchais: The Scoundrel, directed by Edouard Molinaro from an unpublished play by Sacha Guitry has a Cyrano-like panache to it and is mostly quite enjoyable—though it is still worth remembering what Fabrice Luchini, in the title role, says to Manuel Blanc, the star-struck young Gudin who complains that the actors are pronouncing his words ...
(The English translation of the title, Beaumarchais the Scoundrel, is unfortunate, since it implies darker intentions on Beaumarchais’s part than does the less judgmental French original: Beaumarchais the Rogue would have been better.)
Mar 20, 1996 · Beaumarchais the Scoundrel is a biopic film based on the life of the French playwright, financier and spy Pierre Beaumarchais depicting his activities during the American War of Independence and his authorship of the Figaro trilogy of plays.
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