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Hollywood’s Forgotten How to Make Movies Like The Count of Monte Cristo
Period action-adventures used to be Hollywood’s thing. But we never see movies like this thrilling new French adaptation of the Dumas classic anymore.
So, how interesting that the latest French adaptation, an expansive, handsomely mounted, big-budgeted affair written and directed by Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de La Patellière, doesn’t just deliver Dumas — it also serves as a reminder of the kind of movie Hollywood has forgotten how to make. After saving a shipwrecked woman who is carrying a secret letter from the previously exiled Napoleon Bonaparte, young nobleman Edmond Dantès(Pierre Niney) is accused of being part of an anti-government conspiracy. The beauty of The Count of Monte Cristo, and a key to its enduring appeal, lies in how it captures both the exaltation and corrosion of revenge; it indulges in enormously satisfying, ancient blood-debt cruelty while recognizing the power of self-awareness and mercy.
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