{"id":17513,"date":"2024-08-05T15:24:41","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T15:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?page_id=17513"},"modified":"2025-05-15T19:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T19:39:07","slug":"the-count-of-montecristo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/the-count-of-montecristo\/","title":{"rendered":"THE COUNT OF MONTECRISTO Le Comte de Monte Cristo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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THE COUNT OF MONTECRISTO<\/h1>\n

(Le Comte de Monte Cristo)<\/h2>\n

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CINEMA COMPETITION
\n<\/strong>CLOSING FILM
\n<\/strong>RENOIR THEATRE
\nDrama, Adventure, Romance<\/strong><\/p>\n

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SUNDAY NOVEMBER 3<\/strong>
\n7:15 pm
\nFollowed by a conversation with writers\/directors Matthieu Delaporte & Alexandre De La Patelli\u00e8re and actor Patrick Mille
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Presented in association with:
\n<\/b>Path\u00e9 Films
\nSamuel Goldwyn Films<\/b>
\nAir Tahiti Nui
\nELMA
\nMonsieur Marcel
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\n<\/b><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#ea1300″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1727816355108{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]West Coast Premiere<\/span><\/strong> |\u00a0France\u00a0|\u00a02024\u00a0|\u00a0Drama, Adventure, Romance |\u00a0178\u00a0min\u00a0|\u00a0In French with English subtitles<\/p>\n

Directed by: <\/strong>Matthieu Delaporte,\u00a0Alexandre De La Patelli\u00e8re
\nWritten by: <\/strong>Matthieu Delaporte,\u00a0Alexandre De La Patelli\u00e8re
\nBased on the Novel by<\/strong>: Alexandre Dumas
\nProduced by: <\/strong>Dimitri Rassam (Chapter 2), Adavan Safaee (Path\u00e9 Films), Matthieu Delaporte (Fargo Films), Logical Content Venture, Umedia, M6 Films
\nCinematography:\u00a0<\/strong>Nicolas Bolduc
\nFilm Editing: <\/strong>C\u00e9lia Lafitedupont
\nOriginal Score: <\/strong>J\u00e9r\u00f4me Rebotier
\nCast: <\/strong>Pierre Niney (Edmond Dant\u00e8s, the Count of Monte Cristo), Bastien Bouillon (Fernand de Morcef), Anamaria Vartolomei (Hayd\u00e9e), Ana\u00efs Demoustier (Merc\u00e9d\u00e8s Herrera), Laurent Lafitte (G\u00e9rard de Villfort), Patrick Mille (Danglars), Pierfrancesco Faveno (Abb\u00e9 Faria), Vassili Schneider (Albert)
\nInternational Sales: <\/strong>Path\u00e9 Films
\nUS Distributor:<\/strong> Samuel Goldwyn Films
\nUS Release date:<\/strong> December 20, 2024<\/p>\n

Directors Matthieu Delaporte<\/strong> and Alexandre de La Patelli\u00e8re<\/strong>, the dynamic screenwriting duo behind last year’s Three Musketeers<\/em> blockbusters, now take on Alexandre Dumas’s swashbuckling 19th century epic of lost love and single-minded vengeance and bring it to the big screen with a stellar ensemble cast and lavish production values. The tale begins with a heroic young first mate, Edmond Dant\u00e8s (consummate French film star Pierre Niney), freshly promoted to ship’s captain and finally in a position to marry his secret love. However, on the very morning of their wedding day, Edmond is wrongfully arrested for a crime he knows nothing of \u2014 a plot hatched by three of the most ruthless of rivals\u2014 and shipped off to the formidable Ch\u00e2teau d’If prison, off the coast of Marseille… But the story certainly doesn’t end there, as filmmakers and author, alike, delve into a microscopic examination of the nature of revenge, justice, mercy and forgiveness.
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Writers\/directors Matthieu Delaporte<\/strong> and Alexandre de La Patelli\u00e8re<\/strong> have worked together for almost two decades. They have cowritten numerous plays, film scripts and television projects. Their feature screenwriting credits include Les Parrains<\/em> (2005); Renaissance<\/em> (2006); RTT<\/em> (2009); 22 Bullets<\/em> (2010); The Prodigies<\/em> (2011); Il \u00e9tait une fois, une fois<\/em> (2012); Divorce French Style<\/em> (2016); It’s your Turn, Honey<\/em> (2017); Fly me Away<\/em> (2021); You Keep the Kids<\/em> (2021); and Family Affairs<\/em> (2022). As screenwriters, they’ve teamed up with director Martin Bourboulon on four projects: Daddy or Mommy<\/em> (2015); Mom or Dad?<\/em> (2017); The Three Musketeers: D’Artagnan<\/em> (TAFFF 2023) and The Three Musketeers: Milady<\/em> (2023). They cowrote the script for two of Delaporte’s solo directorial efforts, The Jungle<\/em> (2006) and Nobody from Nowhere<\/em> (2014). Finally, they cowrote and codirected What’s in a Name?<\/em> (COLCOA 2013), which was nominated for a C\u00e9sar Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, and The Best Is Yet to Come<\/em> (2019). The Count of Monte Cristo<\/em><\/strong> had its world premiere, out of competition, at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, where it received an 11-minute standing ovation, and went on to become a major French box-office hit this summer.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][mk_image src=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/montecristo_-benoit-sauvage.jpg” image_size=”full” frame_style=”gray_border” align=”center”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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