Célimène et le Cardinal

For here is Alceste in the very comfortable situation of a man cut off from the world, yet holding it in his iron fist: in the 18th century, a prelate's power is considerable. Twenty years later, he invites himself to his former lover's home to find a pretty woman in her forties who, far from the Court she "betrayed" by marrying a bourgeois, seems perfectly happy with her four children.
But what has Mazarin's equal come to do with this ordinary mother? Saving her! For he says he has been haunted for months by a "terrifying" dream that he took for a message from heaven, and according to which Célimène is in mortal danger... Convinced that he is God's ambassador to mankind, Alceste decides to confess this lost sheep, too happy to be honest. This "confession," by turns comical, moving, and... erotic, quickly turns into an oratorical joust between a Jansenist rooted in his time and a libertine ahead of her time, a figurehead, according to Alceste, of an 18th century that is fast approaching. But from this conflict, only Love will emerge victorious, since 20 years later, Molière's lovers still love each other. And forever.