The Three Musketeers Part 1 D’Artagnan: Dumas Would Approve

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Info via Rotten Tomatoes:

In Part I of the two-part epic adaptation of the beloved classic by Alexandre Dumas, D’Artagnan arrives in Paris trying to find his attackers after being left for dead, which leads him to a real war where the future of France is at stake. He aligns himself with Athos, Porthos and Aramis.

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Review:

The Three Musketeers Part 1: D’Artagnan is gritty swashbuckling of the jubilant kind, Alexander Dumas’ classic delivered with a smirk and glint in the eye.

In Part 1, the director Martin Bourbolon, focuses on the last and Fourth Musketeer, D’Artagnan, the fun and youngest one. If he were a Samurai he would be played by Toshiro Mifune with a grunting ruffian mixture of bluff, awkwardness and naïveté. But being French the baby faced Francoise Civil, who played a Gallic James Bond in the Netflix comedy Call My Agent will do. He is both modern and classic, a perfect melange for a film that combines both.

Part 1 has modern scale, call it Marvel-ous in tone. Yet, with it’s commitment to practical effects, good old fashion sword fights shown long and broad and on location shooting, it reflects an ancient regime of filmmaking, something that is both noir and nouveau. This is fluff Truffaut would have made if he turned down Fahrenheit 451– utterly French in feeling, yet resolutely American in style.

The only updating to modern sensibilities is a bisexual Porthos (Pio Marmai). The cast is mainly classic French actors doing the main male parts (Vincent Cassel as Athos, Louis Garrel as King Louis) with an sprinkling of multilingual actresses as the female leads (Eva Green as Milady, Vicky Krieps as Queen Anne). It all ends with a vibrantly action sequence that nicely sets up Part 2 later.

The Three Musketeers Part 1: D’Artagnan gets a 3.5 out of 5 or a B+.

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Credits:

French

Les Trois Mousquetaires: D’Artagnan

Directed by

Martin Bourboulon

Written by

• Matthieu Delaporte
• Alexandre de La Patellière

Based on

The Three Musketeers

by Alexandre Dumas

Produced by

Dimitri Rassam

Starring

• François Civil
• Vincent Cassel
• Romain Duris
• Pio Marmaï
• Eva Green

Cinematography

Nicolas Bolduc

Edited by

Célia Lafitedupont

Music by

Guillaume Roussel

Production

companies

• Pathé
  • Chapter 2
  • M6 Films
  • Constantin Film
  • DeAPlaneta
  • Umedia

Distributed by

• Pathé (France)[1]
• Alternative Films (Belgium)[1]
  • Constantin Film(Germany)[1]
  • DeAPlaneta (Spain)[1]

Release dates

• 5 April 2023(France & Belgium)[2][1]
• 13 April 2023(Germany)[1]
• 14 April 2023(Spain)[1]

Running time

121 minutes[1]

Countries

• France[3]
• Germany[3]
• Spain[3]
• Belgium[4]

Language

French[1][5]

Budget

• €36 million[6]
  • (US$39.1 million)

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