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‘The Count Of Monte-Cristo’ Review: Sumptuous And Thrilling French Version Of Classic Revenge Tale Feels New All Over Again – Cannes Film Festival
A review of 'The Count Of Monte-Cristo, a new French produced version puts a spin on the classic Alexandre Dumas book about a man out for revenge .
The screenwriters of another Dumas adaptation, the recent two part The Three Musketeers , Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de la Patelliere, have taken on the directing reins here as well this time, and spectacularly made a Monte-Cristo modern audiences will eat up. When we meet him he is a ship’s first mate during a disaster at sea he gets credit for saving the day and a possible promotion to commander, but he is set up out of jealousy by shipmates and friends, Fernand de Marcef ( Bastien Bouillon) and Danglars ( Patrick Mille). Thinking it can all be cleared up, it can’t when “evidence” appears and Dantes is unfairly deemed guilty without a trial and sent away to a miserable Marseilles prison, Chateau d’If in solitary confinement for four years before he meets another inmate, Abbot Faria ( Pierfrancesco Favino) who engages him in his continuing scheme to dig a tunnel to escape the island fortress.
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