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Exhibition: Alexandre Dumas, a novelist who bursts the screen

2023-04-04T13:01:13.006Z


CRITICISM - The Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé Foundation devotes a rich exhibition accompanied by a retrospective of the adaptations of the work of the author of The Three Musketeers to the cinema.


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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