Dumas

Safy Nebbou presents a refreshing comic touch and a quintet of fine performances. Dumas tells a fictionalised story about the relationship between the great French novelist (of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo fame) and his ghost-writer, Auguste Maquet who impersonates his patron to win over a young woman.

The drama opens with Dumas (played by screen giant Gérard Depardieu) and Maquet (Benoit Poelvoorde) arriving in Trouville where the two intend to continue work on Dumas’ latest novel The Vicomte de Bragelonne. While Dumas proceeds to bed every serving wench in sight, Maquet sets to work. But when young revolutionary Charlotte Desrives (Mélanie Thierry) comes to his room to ask for help in liberating her imprisoned father, Maquet is taken by her beauty and perpetuates his mistaken identity as Dumas in order to woo her

An engrossing tale about one of the world’s greatest ever storytellers, Dumas has set critics and audiences buzzing alike, stoking controversy and gaining plaudits across the board.