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`Beaumarchais' turns dramatist into a clown.(Metropolitan Times)(Arts & Entertainment)(Movies)
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November 28, 1997|
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Too bad "BeaumarchaisL'Insolent" ("Beaumarchais, the Scoundrel") fails as an irresistible film of biography and history - especially since the French costume romp is the last new picture playing at the Key, which closes Dec. 7.
Great prospects for such a film masterpiece probably vanished when the late, great Sacha Guitry failed to develop the source material, an unpublished play, into a theatrical and movie vehicle for himself.
Presumably, that was an opportunity lost sometime in the the 1930s.
Today, director Edouard Molinaro - who is best ...
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