‘Quite magical, quite miraculous filming’: Pier Nin’s most powerful scene in Monte Cristo isn’t the most spectacular

Warning – The article below contains minor spoilers for The Count of Monte Cristo, currently in theaters. So please go ahead if you haven’t seen it yet.

Mission accomplished for the Count of Monte Cristo! The film by Mathieu Delaporte and Alexandre de la Patellier, which was released in theaters on June 28, will reach the 4 million audience milestone in France. He therefore largely achieved the goal set by his producer Dimitri Rassam, which was better than d’Artagnan’s 3,432,815.

A few days before its release, the feature film was successfully screened at Club AlloCiné. And his main performer Pierre Nini evoked one of the most discreet scenes of Edmond Dantes’ tale of revenge.

AlloCiné: There’s this scene in the movie that’s not the most visually stunning, but incredible in terms of acting, it’s at this point that the character changes when he comes home and finds that he’s lost everything. A tear falls down one cheek, Edmond Dantes wipes it away, and the other eye turns completely black. A young man disappears to make way for a creature driven only by revenge. It is very subtle but powerful. What memory do you have from this shoot?

Pierre Nin : It was a really important scene where Edmond Dantes discovers a number of absolutely tragic and dramatic things that will completely change his trajectory. And deeply change his character. And indeed, we had quite a magical, quite miraculous catch.

I was moderately aware of this, but the directors told me that there was this shift that was the heart, the DNA, of what we wanted to say, what we were trying to say in this trajectory that Alexandre Dumas wrote. . This reception is cool. And thanks, that’s nice.

You’re not on a horse in that moment, it’s not a fight scene, there’s no makeup, but it’s still the strongest moment of the movie…

Pierre Nin: That’s what we wanted to do with this film. That was the whole point, was that it wasn’t just an adventure movie or an adventure movie: it’s a revenge movie, a tragic movie, a movie that explores what can be darker in the human spirit.

Comments collected on June 19, 2024 in Paris