Original title: La Fille de d'Artagnan (D'Artagnan's Daughter). Quite a lot of treatments of the adventures of the Three Musketeers, especially those made in America, play them strictly for laughs. It's too bad, because there's more to them than that, as this humorous, lighthearted, witty film from Bertrand Tavernier shows us.
The film begins as Eloise, the now nearly grown-up daughter of d'Artagnan, witnesses a crime. There's a lot of movement in the film about just what that crime is, but there certainly is one -- at least one. The nature of the crime is discovered and the plot foiled -- but certainly there are no straight lines marking the way from here to there. It's delightful, it's a romp -- but it's never unintelligent. And very worth seeing -- Tavernier celebrates here, as he does in all his films, the beauty of the French countryside.
In French, with optional English subtitles. Of course, some slight knowledge of French history makes it even more fun.
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