Paris in July: The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan and The Three Musketeers: Madame

You know I love a foreign film festival and make an effort to see at least one film from each festival during the year. If I had to pick a favourite film festival, the French Film Festival would be right up there! 

In order to gently encourage my husband to come with me to see festival films, I thought I would start this year's French Film festival viewing with a film he should really like so we went to see the The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan. After all, the story should be at least somewhat familiar given how many adaptations there have been over the years.

Whilst I am not sure how faithful the adaptation was to the original book, it was certainly entertaining. There were sufficient levels of buckle and swash, derring do and fair maidens! There was also humour, adventure, glamour and dirt! In short, it was a lot of fun.

I am not going to recap the story, because I can't talk about the second film without spoiling the first one!

This film was one of the highest grossing films in France in 2023 and it was nominated for a number of prizes.

Here's the trailer for D'Artagnan

It is fair to say that we enjoyed the movie as the next week we were back at the same cinema to watch the second movie, The Three Musketeers: Madame. Interestingly these were both filmed back to back, and you can tell. There were some really lovely locations used across both films, and there were no problems with continuity.

The story was engaging and entertaining! The door has well and truly be left open for another film, and we will definitely be lining up to watch any sequel that comes out!

Here's the trailer for Milady!