Recycling cult stories with a feminine twist is already a has-been fashion in Hollywood. Whether they are the robbers of the saga Oceanthe spirit hunting geeks of Ghostbustersor horny teenagersAmerican Piereplacing iconic male characters with a female team is rarely synonymous with success. So, when Canal+ and UGC Distribution announce the production of a film The Three Musketeers with women in the title roles, we start by being wary. First of all because the project seems to be motivated by opportunism – the adaptations of Dumas by Pathé are triumphs in theaters, and interest in the author has increased tenfold –, but above all because the previous iterations of the genre are often turnips.
ALSO READ “The Count of Monte Cristo”: the reasons for its successSo forget the heroes you know and say hello to Athos, Portau and Aramitz, respectively played by Sabrina Ouazani, Déborah Lukumuena, and Daphné Patakia in All for one. The three women, ex-prisoners disguised as musketeers, are on a mission to save the queen from Richelieu's mercenaries. On their way, they meet a Morisco woman (Oulaya Amamra) who knows a shortcut to catch up with her. Neither one nor two, here she is in the team, cross-dressed in her turn. The musketeers give him the name of a Gascon colleague they met in the past. She will be… d’Artagnan!
Dirty and vulgar… like a man
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