This new screen adaptation of the Dumas novel premiered at last year’s Festival de Cannes. The critics liked it: The New York Times called it “stirringly acted and gorgeously filmed” and said “this swashbuckler leaves previous versions of Dumas’s famous revenge saga in the dust”. The Guardian rated it 4\/5, noting it was “directed with verve and acted with gusto”. It certainly rocks along: the original novel is a sprawling episodic adventure, and somehow this version manages to make it feel pacy and engaging. The story in brief:\u00a0\u00a0Edmond Dant\u00e8s, a young sailor betrayed and falsely imprisoned on the day of his wedding, is jailed for years in the Ch\u00e2teau d\u2019If where a fellow prisoner reveals the truth behind his downfall. He learns of a fortune that he can access, escapes from the island fortress in a classically unlikely fashion, establishes a new identity, and proceeds to tack down those who destroyed his life in a powerful story of justice, transformation, and revenge …<\/p>\n
In French with English subtitles. Screens in the Louvre Abu Dhabi Auditorium as part of Cannes Film Nights, a curated programme of acclaimed films shown at Cannes and presented in collaboration with the Institut Fran\u00e7ais.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"