Molière (2007)

Molière: Directed by Laurent Tirard. With Romain Duris, Fabrice Luchini, Laura Morante, Edouard Baer. To satisfy his creditors, a witty actor reinvents himself as a satirical playwright, with uproarious, yet bittersweet, results.

“Seems some viewers have a completely wrong impression of the story here and what it is trying to show. It depicts a very light-skinned British girl of 7 being left behind by her parents in Ethiopia, then raised by a group of Muslims. As she grew up, and studied the Koran, to her the skin color was not important. But when she as a young adult eventually is forced to leave Ethiopia for safety during the 1974 Ethiopian overthrow of dictator Haile Selassie and his government, and arrived in Great Britain, she soon found that she indeed received special treatment, compared to the native dark-skinned Ethiopians.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAdd to that she had developed a relationship with an Ethiopian doctor who didnu0026#39;t escape when she did and a large part of the story here is her search for him and wondering if he survived.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBased on a novel, my wife and I enjoyed it at home on DVD from our public library. Good movie because it treats a subject that seems to be happening somewhere in the world at any given time, people forced to leave their country because of turmoil and lack of safety. Dakota Fanning is good in the lead role.”