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Director:
Daniel Vigne
Writers:
Jacques Forgeas (scenario, adaptation and dialogue) and
Jean de La Fontaine (fables)
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Release Date:
18 April 2007 (France) more
User Comments:
Boring and not historically accurate more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Lorànt Deutsch ... Jean de La Fontaine
Philippe Torreton ... Colbert
Sara Forestier ... Perrette

Jean-Claude Dreyfus ... M. de Chateauneuf

Élodie Navarre ... La duchesse de Bouillon
Julien Courbey ... Molière
Jocelyn Quivrin ... Louis XIV
Daniel Duval ... Terron
Armelle ... Melle Léotot
Jean-Pierre Malo ... Jannart
Sylviane Goudal ... La rateau

Romain Rondeau ... Racine
Mélanie Maudran ... Mme de la Sablière
Jean-Paul Farré ... Claude Barbin
Jérémie Lippmann ... Valère
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Additional Details

Runtime:
France:100 min
Country:
France
Language:
French
Color:
Color
Certification:
Philippines:R-13 (MTRCB)
Company:
Cinétévé more

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7 out of 9 people found the following comment useful:-
Boring and not historically accurate, 19 April 2007
4/10
Author: cyberpix

The sets and costumes are beautiful, there are some good background actors, but overall we found this movie very dull. There's no rhythm, not enough story, the acting is not what it should be. Was it an attempt to follow the fashion of history biopics of these last years? Fouquet, Molière, and now La Fontaine. But if his writings are forever famous, does his life deserves a movie? Judging from this one, I'd say not. Plus there are some annoying literary omissions. For instance, in this movie Jean de la Fontaine seems to discover the idea of talking animals, he gets inspiration by looking at animals and insects... Yet everybody knows, and he himself never denied it, that he was mostly inspired by the classic stories of Esope. He merely (yet brilliantly) modernized them.

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