The School for Wives

The School for Wives

  • Overview
  • Cast
  • Crew

Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 24, 2020

Runtime

1h 43m

User Score

20%

Original Title

The School for Wives

Production Companies

Molière in the Park, French Institute Alliance Française

Director

Lucie Tiberghien

Description

The School For Wives, at its core, is about gender power dynamics. We are looking forward to telling this classic 17th century French tale through the lens of a contemporary aesthetic and an all female, primarly non-white cast to further bring into focus the inherent power of justice and equality over racism and sexism. Furthermore, by casting a Black woman in the central role of ARNOLPHE - a white man of power and privilege, who is forced to realize that he cannot control or snuff out ANYONE's humanity - we are shining a light on the ultimate absurdity of similar American systems of oppression.