A 3 MUSKETEER REVIEW FROM THE SAN SEBASTIAN FILM FESTIVAL!

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TRADUZIONI RECENSIONI de

I TRE MOSCHETTIERI

COMINGSOON

Monks, musketeers and police in San Sebastian!

Carola Proto

With the shout of “All for one and one for all!”, arrived in the Basque land, strictly in 3D and armed with swords, costumes and humor, the most famous swordsmen of France: Athos, Porthos, Aramis and the boy of Gascony, D'Artagnan.

Three weeks before the Italian release, the San Sebastian Film Festival opened its doors to the cinema maistream with the European premiere of The Three Musketeers, again - but still welcome - transposition of the novel by Alexandre Dumas.

Entrusted to the expert hands of “Resident Evil's Dad” Paul W.S. Anderson, this version leaves out the epic and verbosity of many previous adaptations, to play consciously with the cliché of a story all too familiar.

Simplified for script requirements and enhanced with special effects, becomes a glowing and delicious film where the characters happily debunk their myth. Among grimaces, betrayal and acrobatics, all become archetypes and return to being what they were when they were created: heroes of a novel's appendix.

If he had been sitting next to us at the cinema, in short, Dumas would spend a wonderful time.

As an admirer of women, he would have appreciated the necklines of Milla Jovovich in the role of the mischievous Milady De Winter.

As a wry joker, he would have approved the sly smile and the sidelong glance of Christoph Waltz's version of Cardinal Richelieu.

As a lover of elegance, then, he would loved upturned mustache and fine clothes of the Lord Buckingham of Orlando Bloom.

Perhaps he wouldn't have agreed with the decision to reduce the bone the Affair of the Necklace - eliminating most of the episodes in England-, but surely he would have forgiven the writers for the poetic license to move the battles on massive galleons supported by balloons.