L'Avare (film)

L'Avare is a 1980 French comedy film written and directed by Louis de Funès and Jean Girault, and starring de Funès. The English title of the film is The Miser. It is an adaptation of Molière's famous comedy L'Avare (The Miser).

De Funès tried to draw out the unhappy side of the character. Harpagon, unloved by humanity, is driven to an obsessive love of money.

Cast

 * Louis de Funès: Harpagon
 * Franck Cabot-David: Cléante
 * Hervé Bellon: Valère
 * Michel Galabru: Maître Jacques
 * Georges Audoubert: Anselme
 * Claude Gensac: Frosine
 * Claire Dupray: Élise, Miser's daughter
 * Anne Caudry: Marianne, Cléante's girlfriend
 * Bernard Menez: La Flèche, Cléante's valet
 * Henri Génès: the commissioner
 * Michel Modo: la Merluche, Harpagon's attendant
 * Guy Grosso: Brindavoine, Harpagon's attendant
 * Max Montavon: Maître Simon
 * Micheline Bourday: Dame Claude, the housemaid
 * Madeleine Barbulée: Marianne's mother

Reception
The film is rated 70% Fresh by Rotten Tomatoes.