D'Artagnan's Daughter (1994)
It is 1654, in the South of France. When horsemen follow a runaway slave into the convent where he's taken sanctuary and kill both the fugitive and the Mother Superior, they little realise that one of the novices is the spirited daughter of retired musketeer D'Artagnan.
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Waste of time
Great Film overall
It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.
Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.
Bertrand Tavernier has turned to the past many times before in his long career. He has no trouble telling a story with period costumes and swirling swordfights. La fille de D'Artagnan is a lot of fun for the first sixty minutes or so, then the lack of any great imagination in the plot construction starts to be apparent. There seems to be a coded message in a letter stolen from a convent that occupies the minds and energies of many of the characters to the detriment of telling the story.Philippe Noiret is great, but the part is so easy for him. Sophie Marceau gets to show off her splendid breasts. Jean-Luc Bideau as Athos is perhaps the most watchable actor in the proceedings; he looks really dapper in that eyeband. If you want a really fine film about pre-Revolutionary France, try Que la fête commence, which has Noiret in one of his best roles.
Only based on Alexander Dumas' musketeer tales, not taken from them, this movie still manages to capture the sense of fun and adventure that marked his novels.The four older actors playing the retired musketeers who are drawn back into the fray by D'Artagnan's daughter, Eloise, will be unfamiliar to most American viewers, but all of them have that same kind of slightly naughty French humor that so many Americans love in Gérard Depardieu (whose Porthos from the "Man in the Iron Mask" would have fit in perfectly here).And Sophie Marceau will charm the pants off of you - although her pants are about the only clothing item she manages to hang onto here. But she is saucy, funny and very strong.The scenery, too, will enchant - the castles, the countryside, all are gorgeous and true to the time.
I was very sorry that the film was very late on television, but it was too much to lose and i kept myself awake to see it. I must say that what moved me to watch the movie was its amazing humor. S. Marceau, notable, but d'Artagnan, unique... I really recommended. It is the first time that i really think: "i want that movie". Find it. Watch it.Enjoy it!
Of course this was made before Leonardo's disaster. (although I didn't think it that bad) However this is so much better. Oh the humor is put in such a manner that it isn't distasteful. Sophie is so much more fiesty than the role she's in Braveheart. I'm glad they offered the subtitled version. I bought mine used, but this looks like another movie I'll have to find everything for. :)