Holy Blue! A European blockbuster that actually competes with Hollywood. Really. Three Musketeers: D’Artagnan (the first part of a two-part saga; the second comes out in December) is a stellar, lavish roaring film so beautifully shot and fast-paced that it can’t turn off even an audience that wouldn’t normally. suffer from subtitles. Would you mind the sexual banter of Vincent Cassel and Romain Duris in the original? French? Me neither.
The 1844 novel by Alexandre Dumas has been filmed dozens of times, but this one is one of the most authentic. Year 1625 and King Louis XIII. prepares for his brother’s wedding while his kingdom continues to be threatened by enemies from within and without. Cheerful and green, d’Artagnan (Francois Civil) arrives in Paris from Gascony, eager to join the king’s famous guard. musketeers, only to immediately anger the three men, who each challenge him to a duel.
Men, naturalnt, the noble nobleman Athos (Kassel), the passionate Aramis (Douris) and the cruel Porthos (Pio Marmai) are revealed to be a trio of musketeers who take d’Artagnan under their wing after he helps them defeat several men who are loyal to him the King’s adviser Cardinal Richelieu, who (frankly, quite frankly) interrupted them to remind them that dueling was illegal. Doesn’t matter. Despite his own rule of law, King Louis XIII. D’Artagnan receives a bag of money so he can dress up in trendy clothes, buy the boys drinks, and impress the girl of his dreams, Constance (Lina Coudry).
There’s a chemistry between the four men who joke and have fun no matter the danger they’re in and are loyal as dogs (although the lonely “all for one and one for all” runs throughout the film, maybe, um, to distinguish a little from screen clichés of bygone days). Three Musketeers really the ultimate bromance. It’s an adventure story with little background to religious and political turmoil (quite a lot in the 17th century).e Century of France) or statements “For the king and the fatherland!” can distract from the fact that these guys really love each other.
Constantly standing in the way are the unreliable Cardinal Richelieu (Eric Ruf), his spy Milady de Winter (Eva Green), who knows how to hide things under her dress, and the unlucky Queen Anne of France (phantom wireVicki Crips). This great cast, especially in form, includes Green, who hasn’t been this unreliable since Casino Royale and whose feathered pointed hats and sleek androgynous robes are almost as seductive as her megawatt side eye.
It’s fun, it’s a lot of fun, it’s exactly the kind of reckless stupidity that we need and for which French cinema is rarely famous.
Source: I News
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