confirmation of a successful adaptation with a star-studded cast

Martin Bourboulon wins his bet with panache with the second part of his adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ masterpiece.

Public and critical success, the first part of Three Musketeers by Martin Bourboulon, D’Artagnan, had conquered thanks to a well-felt casting and a dark adaptation of the solar novel by Alexandre Dumas. Waited, Miladyin theaters Wednesday December 13, is even better, with Eva Green perfect as the queen of spades, disturbingly ambiguous.

Poisonous Milady

After the recovery of the queen’s studs which was to finance the English invasion, it was prepared, spied on on both sides of the Channel. At the Louvre, people try to break through the British calendar, while the religious war divides the country. Palace intrigues and espionage are going well, and the musketeers Athos, Porthos, Aramis, joined by d’Artagnan attempt a mission to London to prevent the invasion, while the enemy besieges La Rochelle.

Martin Bourboulon realizes his adaptation of Three Musketeers in two parts, in accordance with Bernard Borderie in 1961, then Richard Lester in 1973-74. The latter even added an opus with The Return of the Three Musketeers in 1989. Dumas had also succumbed to the sequels, the novel being the first in a trilogy. If the first part of this new version, adapted by Alexandre de La Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte, was a good surprise, their poisonous Milady surpasses it.

Gothic Morgana

It’s a pleasure to find a cast that hits the mark – François Civil, Vincent Cassel, Romain Duris, Pio Marmaï – as musketeers of Louis XIII, dominated by Eva Green as Milady de Winter, by turns seductive, lover and traitor. In her attire linking charm to a physical performance of which she has the secret, the actress bewitches, like a Gothic Morgana weaving a personal revenge that would shake the kingdom. She is the film.

The historical adventure is there, the charm operates, with its back and forths from the Louvre to Buckingham, its naval battle, its siege of La Rochelle, but also stops on the private lives of the musketeers, while Constance (Lyna Khoudri) finds a rival of choice in the injured and vengeful Eva Green who bewitches d’Artagnan. Louis Garrel excels as Louis XIII, the foils sting and the horses gallop. The continuity between the two films works from a single man and Martin Bourboulon renews, in the image, the romance of an imperishable text.

The sheet

Gender : Historical drama
Director: Martin Bourboulon
Actors: François Civil, Vincent Cassel, Romain Duris, Pio Marmaï, Eva Green, Louis Garrel, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Lyna Khoudri, Eric Ruf, Marc Barbé
Country : France
Duration : 1h55
Exit : December 13 2023
Distributer : Pathé