L'autre Dumas - Movie review
| Country (Year): | France (2010) |
| Runtime: | 105min |
| Director: | Safy Nebbou |
| Release date: | 10.02.2010 (Romandie) |
| Script: | Cyril Gely |
| Safy Nebbou | |
| Eric Rouquette |
L'autre Dumas
Image galleryAuguste Maquet, shy and submissive but very productive, is the collaborator of the legendary Alexandre Dumas. A literary genius with a passionate temperament, Dumas is at the height of his fame, but keeps his loyal and indispensable adjunct out of the limelight, even though Maquet helped him write 18 novels and many plays, including "The Three Musketeers", "The Count of Monte Christo" and "Queen Margot". Increasingly unhappy with this arrangement, Maquet decides to pass himself off as the master to seduce Charlotte, a young and ravishing admirer. With the 1848 revolution developing in Paris, the two writers are destined to clash. For his costume drama, director Safy Nebbou (Le papillon, L'empreinte de l'ange) reunites two of France's greatest performers: Gérard Depardieu as Dumas and Benoît Poelvoorde as Maquet - both are excellent in their contrasting roles. A footnote: French bibliographies have long debated Maquet's role in Dumas' works: some think he was nothing more than a "mason", in the service of the "architect" Dumas; other see a real author whom the famous author merely exploited.
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