The Other Dumas Articles

Paul Muni, Luise Rainer in The Good Earth The ethnic controversy surrounding the casting of Gérard Depardieu as Alexandre Dumas in Safy Nebbou's The Other Dumas reminded me of Arthur Dong's 2007 documentary Hollywood Chinese, which discusses how Caucasian actors usually played major Chinese roles in American movies up to the not-too-distant past. Among those featured in Hollywood Chinese, whether in clips or as talking [...]

Gérard Depardieu, one of the greatest icons of French cinema, has dismissed claims that he has been miscast as mixed-race author Alexandre Dumas in Safy Nebbou's big-budget production L'Autre Dumas / The Other Dumas. In Depardieu's words at the Berlin Film Festival on Friday, those arguments are "ridiculous" and "unnecessary," while the issue itself is "not interesting" and "not a problem." A number of reviewers [...]