Friday, November 8, 2024
at Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) L02, 320 York Street
Reception: 5 pm
Screening: 6 pm (in French with English Subtitles)
Introduction by Blanche Cerquiglini, editor of Dumas’s novel in the Folio Classics series at Gallimard
This brilliant 2024 adaptation of Dumas’s classic, starring the incomparable Pierre Niney, has catapulted the original 950-page novel to best seller status.
The target of a sinister plot, young Edmond Dantès is arrested on his wedding day for a crime he did not commit. After fourteen years in the island prison of Château d’If, he manages a daring escape. Now rich beyond his dreams, he assumes the identity of the Count of Monte Cristo and exacts his revenge on the three men who betrayed him.
See trailer
With grateful thanks to The Molière and Co. Fund in Memory of June Beckelman Guicharnaud, the Department of French, and the Whitney Humanities Center.