“The Three Musketeers: D’Artagnan” hits theaters this Wednesday, April 5, 2023. We caught up with director Martin Bourboulon and actors Louis Garrel and Vicky Krieps. Interview.
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas has been the subject of around thirty film adaptations since 1909. This Wednesday, April 5, 2023, moviegoers will be able to discover a new one in theaters. The Three Musketeers: D’Artagnan is the first part of a diptych, which will conclude on December 13. In the title roles, we find François Civil, Vincent Cassel, Pio Marmaï and Romain Duris, accompanied by a five-star cast.
During a promotional day held in Paris on March 21, 2023, Linternaute met director Martin Bourboulon and actors Louis Garrel (King Louis XIII) and Vicky Krieps (Queen Anne of Austria). Secondary characters, they nevertheless motivate the plot and the mission of the musketeers of the title and offer astonishing scores by embodying a loving and modern royal couple. In an interview, the director returned to his conception of the feature film and the principles that guided its staging, when the two performers confided in their preparation work and the couple they embody on screen. The video interview can be found below.
In an interview for Linternaute, director Martin Bourboulon confides in the principles that motivated this new adaptation of The Three Musketeers: “I didn’t try to stand out from previous versions, I didn’t try to build this film in opposition or in reaction to what had been done.” What he tried to do, however, was to offer something new to the spectators: “I was obsessed with hunting for the real. From that moment on, we slipped all the places of the bet on stage that we can, whether in the action scenes, in the acting, in the costumes, in the sets, but there was no desire to say “I’m going to do something different”. on the other hand the responsibility of saying to oneself “since we are going back there, let’s try to project a universe that is perhaps a little new and to have something that might have never been seen. I think it’s the correctness of the acting and the approach to the action scenes that guided my direction at the beginning.”
In The Three Musketeers, Vicky Krieps and Louis Garrel play an amazing royal couple. The Queen of Austria has a lover, but still loves her husband, who is also motivated in his actions by the desire to please his wife. “I was interested in playing a woman from that era, who is completely open and who loves two men at the same time and who does not see why it is a problem to love more than one man”, details Vicky Krieps. “You shouldn’t be afraid in an epic adventure film to tell a very precise marital relationship between a king, a queen, and her lover. It’s a fascinating thing to say to yourself “a statesman , a head of state, what he does, he also does it to please his wife or not? Even for terrible questions of committing a country to war: does it expect recognition from the woman it loves? is he watching if she is going to judge him?”