Les trois Mousquetaires, 1re partie : D’Artagnan
The Three Musketeers – Part 1: D’Artagnan

Date & Time: Saturday 9th at 8:30pm

Details: Martin Bourboulon / France / 2023 / 121 mins

Starring: François Civil, Vincent Cassel, Pio Marmaï, Romain Duris, Eva Green

“The first instalment of a two-film French-language adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’s swashbuckling classic, this lavish period drama taps enthusiastically into the spirit of the source material. This is flamboyant, ostentatious, grandstanding film-making, unashamedly old-fashioned and incorrigibly entertaining. Everything, from the opulent court costumes to the showy single-shot fight sequence that cements the grudging respect between D’Artagnan and his new comrades, is delivered with a flourish and a wink.

All the muck and sweat in the world fails to disguise the fact that Civil makes for an impossibly pretty D’Artagnan, but the picture’s seductive power lies elsewhere, with a glorious, typically extravagant performance from Eva Green as the treacherous Milady. She’s great fun in a role that might have been tailor-made for her skill set: Milady is vampy, venomous and dripping with goth jewellery.” Wendy Ide, The Guardian

Nominated for six César Awards, 2024