Martin Bourboulon

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’13 Days, 13 Nights’ Film Review: A French Perspective on Kabul in August 2021

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The generic title underplays the importance of this French war film, which does something utterly shocking from an American perspective: it pays respect to France’s allies, too. Not since the days of World War II movies have any American films bothered to mark our allies, even in passing. (A brief …

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Review: ‘The Three Musketeers: Milady’ Concludes Martin Bourboulon’s Grand Epic

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Alexandre Dumas’ The Three Musketeers has gone through many permutations, but Martin Bourboulon’s two-parter, which has allowed France to direct a just – and realist – adaptation of Dumas’ tale, is one of the very best modern book-to-film iterations we’ve seen in ages. And its first installment, D’Artagnan, is also the best part one of …

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