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Article: `QUEEN MARGOT' IS EPIC DUMAS.(PREVIEW)(Movie review)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- May 25, 1995
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Byline: WILLIAM ARNOLD Seattle Post-Intelligencer If ever an author was made for the movies, it was France's Alexandre Dumas pere. The history of the cinema is populated with successful adaptations of his ``The Three Musketeers,'' ``The Count of Monte Cristo'' and ``The Man in the Iron Mask.''
In ``Queen Margot,'' director Patrice Chereau has dipped deep into the Dumas oeuvre and adapted one of his more obscure historical swashbucklers one of the few Dumas works that has yet to be made into a movie.
And the Dumas movie luck has held: ``Queen Margot'' is a rich, complex, surprisingly compelling drama that goes for gritty historical realism, and ...