Film Review — Les Trois Mousquetaires: D’Artagnan (The Three Musketeers: D’Artagnan)
Alexandre Dumas’s perennial favourite gets a stirring retelling in the first of Martin Bourboulon’s two-part adaptation
Do we really need another version of The Three Musketeers? On the evidence of this, the first of Martin Bourboulon’s two-part adaptation of the beloved Alexandre Dumas tome, it appears we actually do. It’s a stirring, swashbuckling, old-fashioned entertainment, deftly divided at roughly the same point Richard Lester divided his enjoyable adaptations five decades ago in The Three Musketeers (1973) and The Four Musketeers (1974).
For those unfamiliar with the plot, it’s set in 1627, France, during the time of Louis XIII (Louis Garell). Young D’Artagnan (François Civil) heads for Paris to join the King’s Musketeers, headed by Captain Tréville (Marc Barbé). Along the way, he attempts to thwart what he believes to be an attempted kidnapping involving the mysterious Milady (Eva Green), but he is attacked and left for dead for his troubles. Surviving this encounter, D’Artagnan continues to Paris, where he rents a room with the Queen’s lady-in-waiting Constance (Lyna Khoudri). He then recklessly challenges three Musketeers, Porthos (Pio Marmaï), Athos (Vincent Cassel), and Aramis (Romain…
