The Count of Montecristo (2024)

Finally a version at the height of the great novel by Dumas, wonderful film, made with a great mastery and a brutal waste of means, everything in it is wonderful: photography, editing, costumes, sets, exteriors, etc, all accompanied by an excellent art direction and excellent actors, especially the protagonist, Pierre Niney, who has an expression in his eyes that comes out of the screen, a great success to take this actor for the main character.

The rest of the cast, led by Anaís Demoustier, is also masterful, and some of them will have to follow their future careers.

The imposing and magnificent settings and landscapes, the set design, the impeccable costumes, the soundtrack... Everything is where it should be, at a high level. Everything is where it should be, at a high level in the firmament of the seventh art, with a very successful period (and epic) adaptation.

The script is an absolute delight, with truly memorable scenes, shot with temperance and mastery, capturing the tension or depth that the screenplay (and thus this work of such stature) is aiming for.

A three-hour film that never gets boring and keeps you glued to your seat from beginning to end.

It's been a long time since I've enjoyed so much at the cinema as I did with this film, even more so given the poor level of cinema releases in recent years.

This film, and French cinema in particular, proves that cinema is still alive and well and that it is still worth going to the cinema to enjoy it.

If it were an American film, it would certainly be a favourite for the next Oscar ceremony. For me, one of the best films I have seen in recent years.

The best thing about it: the ample means; the budget is noticeable (43 million euros), it is a luxurious and painstaking adaptation with a remarkable period setting and marvellous locations for filming.

It's not like the novel? Of course, the film takes licenses, shortcuts and omissions, but that's the magic of cinema, and besides, honestly, a work like this is simply impossible to reproduce in a single film.