One for all and all Dumas for the cinema.
The Three Musketeers
,
The Count of Monte-Cristo
, but also
Queen Margot
,
The Black Tulip
,
The Knight of Maison-Rouge
,
Kean
,
The Lady of Monsoreau
,
The Queen's Necklace
... Historical novels and the theater of the literary father by d'Artagnan have nourished the seventh art since the beginnings of silent cinema more than a century ago.
The great filmmaker Jean Renoir summed up this prolific Dumas manna in one stroke:
“I was about ten years old when I discovered Alexandre Dumas.
I'm still discovering it..."
Martin Bourboulon's new rereading of The
Three Musketeers
gave the Pathé Foundation a great idea: to organize a rich exhibition that would look back at the adaptations of Dumas' work in 24 images/seconds, accompanied by a retrospective on its walls.
Some 200 documents, nearly 100 film extracts, costumes, props, photographs, posters, storyboards, directors' notes, drawings...
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