He’s spontaneous, unpredictable and full of energy, and director Bourboulon adopts a complementary shooting style: The widescreen camera nimbly observes, adapting to and dancing along with the action. François Civil, who plays ambitious young D’Artagnan, may be less familiar to foreign audiences, but he’s an obvious star - so much so that the film embraces the handsome actor’s scruffy goatee and wild, windblown hair, styling the character around Civil’s off-screen persona. Amusingly bored-looking, Louis Garrel prisses it up as King Louis XIII, while Vicky Krieps elegantly embodies his unfaithful wife Anne of Austria, whose indiscretions with the Duke of Buckingham (Jacob Fortune-Lloyd) drive one of this movie’s biggest missions.Īs the titular trio - Athos, Porthos and Aramis, the top soldiers in a royal corps armed with guns but acclaimed for their swordsmanship - the film taps three thesps with no fewer than 18 César nominations among them: Cassel, Pio Marmaï and Romain Duris. Without overselling the movie - which certainly has its flaws - that would be a shame, as Bourboulon (whose 2021 “Eiffel” biopic proved he could operate on a large scale) has delivered the rare European co-production grand and exciting enough to rival the Hollywood franchise movies competing for local coin. In theory, the movie shouldn’t make a dime less than Vincent Cassel-starrer “Brotherhood of the Wolf” did back in 2001, but without an American studio behind it, or a smart marketing campaign to convey what a big deal it has been in France, “The Three Musketeers” might not even break even. 8, rather than on all the same screens that Ridley Scott’s no-less-bombastic “Napoleon” is now hogging. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.And so “D’Artagnan” must fend for itself in a tiny specialty release, playing in art-house theaters to foreign-film aficionados starting Dec. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. ![]()
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