Would-Be Gentleman

Comedy, TV Movie

🏆 Fan Favorite

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Pierre Badel

Status Released

Release Date 1968-12-28

Storyline

Le Bourgeois gentilhomme satirizes attempts at social climbing and the bourgeois personality, poking fun both at the vulgar, pretentious middle-class and the vain, snobbish aristocracy. The title is meant as an oxymoron: in Molière's France, a "gentleman" was by definition nobly born, and thus there could be no such thing as a bourgeois gentleman.