The Three Musketeers It is one of the most famous and popular stories and has had several film adaptations, both in France and in Hollywood. The older ones will remember the one they acted in gene kelly, as D’Artagnan, and Lana Turner as Lady de Winter, in the Golden Age of Hollywood. They often passed him inside Saturdays of super action.
Well, this premiere today has no shortage of cast, and was filmed in France, with an equally lavish cast, but, based on the 1844 novel by Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers: D’Artagnan ends differently, because obviously they have divided it into two parts (spoiler alert: this film ends when Constance -Lyna Khoudri- is kidnapped), and the second, already filmed and which will also be released this year, will be titled The Three Musketeers: Milady.
The basis is practically the same, with some modifications without major consequences. It is like Constance, with whom the protagonist falls in love, she is not married to the landlord to whom he rented her room when she arrived from Paris, but she is the one who rents him the house, nor does D’Artagnan have a maid. .
In other words, the young 18-year-old Gascon (François Civil) arrives in Paris in 1625, after having had a meeting on the street -where director Martin Bourboulon begins the film-.
All for one, and one…
And yes, he wants to join King Louis XIII’s Company of Musketeers (Louis Garrel). And he will also accumulate duels meeting the three musketeers Athos (Vincent Cassel), Porthos (Pio Marmaï) and Aramis (Romain Duris) and when the three arrive, and he is ready to fight with them, Cardinal Richelieu’s men (Eric Ruf) try to arrest them because dueling is prohibited.
The rest is known history: the newcomer, an infallible swordsman, will fight alongside those who spend their time saying that they One for all and all for one, and they will be left to lie to the guards of the one who plots a conspiracy against the king. There is also the story of the Queen’s infidelity with the English Duke of Buckingham, diamond necklace included.
There are directors who have focused more on the choreography of hand-to-hand combat (and even with guns), others who have adapted the matter for the comic side. Bourboulon chooses action, simple, with swords, guns, a little romance, seduction (it’s for something green eve as Milady de Winter) and political conflicts at court, between those who want to take advantage of the king and bring him to war with the English Protestants.
For the film to get back on track, it is necessary, or at least helps, that there is camaraderie between the Musketeers and d’Artagnan, and this shows on the screen.
They’ve fabricated a murder for Athos, who he says he doesn’t know whether or not he committed because, well, he’s a man of his word but also a man of booze, and just like some other musketeer he makes it clear that there’s nothing written in his preferences sexual -or they weren’t there when Dumas published his novel-, all these “updates” neither add nor subtract.
“The Three Musketeers: D’Artagnan”
Action/ Adventures. France, 2023. Original title: “The three mousquetaires: D’Artagnan”. 121′, SA 13. From: Martin Bourbon. With: Francois Civil, Vincent Cassel, Eva Green, Romain Duris, Louis Garrel. Rooms: Hoyts Abasto, Cinemark Caballito, Cinépolis Pilar.
Source: Clarin
