Although this film is very different to the Dumas book (well worth a read) the story is classic. It gives us a feel for how terrible the wars of religion were and how much hatred existed between Catholic and Protestant - and we think we're fighting a Holy war now???
The cast are all excellent without exception - especially Anglade and Autiel. The film is sumptuous and colourful and also highly erotic. It plays with its audience lurching between lust and slaughter.
The script is excellent - but sadly the subtitlers as usual give us English ideas of what is said - not literal translation which would be far more poetic.
Ultimately this film is a lesson to Hollywood on the art of film making. History is peppered with scripts - write proper scripts from proper stories - make them truthful and authentic by using proper actors from the countries concerned - or at least actors that can do the accent.
If the US struggles for History why not plunder Europe?
This film is in my Top 20.
The cast are all excellent without exception - especially Anglade and Autiel. The film is sumptuous and colourful and also highly erotic. It plays with its audience lurching between lust and slaughter.
The script is excellent - but sadly the subtitlers as usual give us English ideas of what is said - not literal translation which would be far more poetic.
Ultimately this film is a lesson to Hollywood on the art of film making. History is peppered with scripts - write proper scripts from proper stories - make them truthful and authentic by using proper actors from the countries concerned - or at least actors that can do the accent.
If the US struggles for History why not plunder Europe?
This film is in my Top 20.