Maybe I take it all too serious being a European from the north. And I must admit I never read or heard Le Misanthrope. But I thought the idea of mixing up the play of Moliere and the story of the movie did not work for me completely. The story is too weak to show a real conflict between the two main figures. The jokes in the movie have mostly nothing to do with that conflict and merely take away the attention from that conflict. The slapstick of the jacuzzi incident though it made me laugh, has nothing to do with whatever. The bike incidents are silly and bad acted. (The clothes are dry and clean in the next scene). The end of the movie where the main figure shows that he is a real misanthrope and why should have been more prominent. I found the end interesting but would have liked to see more of the hate and decline of people in the main figure. It should have been more a melodrama or even a drama instead of a comedy.
Review of Bicycling with Molière
