LAURENT LAFITTE TO PLAY FAMOUS FRENCH WRITER IN THE IMAGINARY MOLIERE 17TH CENTURY PARIS SET MOVIE

Here is another costume movie drama set to arrive from France sometime this year! Laurent Lafitte and Jeanne Balibar, alongside Stacy Martin and

Laurent Lafitte will be Moliere in the new film

Olivier Py, will star in THE IMAGINARY MOLIERE (Le Molière imaginaire) movie which is also being helmed by Py. Theater of the Palais Royal in Paris, February 17, 1673. The King's troupe is in the middle of a performance of Le Malade Imaginaire when Molière begins to spit blood. Despite everything, he decides to continue playing. During his agony, he allows the events and ghosts that have made his life to enter the space of the theatre. Engaging in a struggle to preserve his dignity, he undertakes to transfigure his death into the instrument of a final burst of laughter.