With a budget estimated in EUR42.9 million, The Count of Monte Cristo is the most expensive French film of 2024.
One of the 4 films shortlisted by France's Oscar committee to be chosen as the country's official submission for the Best International Feature Film category at the 97th Academy Awards.
The film was a huge hit at the French box office with 9,382,000 admissions.
Clocking in at 2 hours and 58 minutes, this is the second-longest film in the official selection (out of competition) at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, behind Horizon: Uma Saga Americana - Capítulo 1 (2024) (3 hours and 1 minute).
The language that the Count and Haydée speak with each other is Romanian. Anamaria Vartolomei (who plays Haydée's character) is a native Romanian speaker and Pierre Niney (who plays Edmond Dantès) has zero foreign accent.
According to the book, Haydée's native language would be Albanian and Greek (based on her parents). The film diverges from the book in stating that Haydée was sold to a Wallachian tribe. This would explain how she speaks Romanian in the movie, but not why the Count speaks it as well (the language of her captors), other than the need of the director to have them use a foreign language for themselves.