1994 - REVENGE OF THE MUSKETEERS, aka La fille de d'Artagnan)

This is an adventure story based on characters from Alexandre Dumas the writer of The Three Musketeers.  This original story has the Musketeers now older and in retirement.  The daugher of  D'Artagnan, Eloise D'Artagnan  is essentially the main focus of this story as she uncovers a plot to kill the King of France and his advisor Cardinal Mazarin by a group of French aristocrats who want to take over France.

Eloise enlists the help of her father and a poet who has fallen in love with her and helps reunite the retired Musketeers.  There's lots of sword fight action, a rather amusing comedy of errors type plot and the whole film is on the light hearted side for the most part.

The film has a good cast with a delightful Sophie Marcel as Eloise D'Artagnan and that old warhorse of French theater and film Philippe Noiret as D'Artagnan.  The two of them play off of each other very well.  Bertrand Tavernier a distinguished director took over the direction from Riccardo Freda who apparently couldn't get along with the cast particularly Sophie Marcel.  This is fairly lightweight stuff for Tavernier but it is well photographed and well staged.

 

For the most part  Revenge of the Musketeers, is a fun film with enough action and humor  that should satisfy the viewer, Sophie Marcel really makes the film take off.

The running time is 125 minutes, the film was written by Michel Léviant, Bertrand Tavernier and Jean Cosmos.