Cyrano de Bergerac
by Jean-Paul Rappeneau
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Actor: Anne Brochet, G?rard Depardieu, Jacques Weber, Roland Bertin, Vincent PerezDirector: Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
Cinematographer: Pierre Lhomme
Writer: Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Producer: Andr? Szots
Producer: Michel Seydoux
Producer: Ren? Cleitman
Writer: Edmond Rostand
Writer: Jean-Claude Carri?re
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 137 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-02-10
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of Cyrano de Bergerac
Movie Review: Tour-de-Depardieu
Summary: 4 Stars
The last word in "Cyrano de Bergerac" is "panache." It's a single-word summation of all that came before. Cyrano -- like Falstaff, Captain Ahab or Robin Hood -- is a literary character turned worldwide phenomenon. He is the big-nosed, swashbuckling poet who embodies "panache," and has captured the hearts and imaginations of audiences everywhere. The name "Cyrano" conjures more than a Pinnochio nose and a floppy, feathery hat. Cyrano is synonymous with valor and bold romanticism: a brilliant, outsized soul, and selfless in his unrequited love for the beautiful but unapproachable Roxane.
He is, in short, the great Romantic hero: individualistic, poetical, brave -- but also tragic, lonely, misunderstood. His "deformity" has made him bitterly self-conscious, sensitive to insult, but also a man set-apart, the envy and enemy of many. He battles a hundred men, throws away a year's pay in one grand gesture, and composes sonnets while matching swords with dim-witted aristocrats. Talk about panache.
Who else could play this character but Gerard Depardieu? With his hulking frame and pudgy potato face, Depardieu's looks are hardly of the marquee-idol variety. But what charisma! Whether playing Danton or Rodin or Cyrano or the Count of Monte Cristo, Depardieu invests his roles with passion, personality, and, yes, panache. Listening to him speak Rostand's lines is like hearing John Gielgud intone Shakespeare: an aesthetic experience unto itself.
Rostand, who clearly loved Shakespeare, did not possess Shakespeare's poetic or dramatic gifts (that said: who does or did?), but he had enough talent to transform the legendary Hercule-Savinien De Cyrano de Bergerac into an indelible icon of the stage and screen. For such a famous part, Depardieu comes as close to giving a definitive performance as possible, and we are the beneficiaries of his, Rostand's, and Cyrano's irrepressible panache.
Summary of Cyrano de Bergerac
One of France's literary treasures commands the screen with this "exceptionally graceful adaptation" (Los Angeles Times) that received a Best Foreign Film Golden Globe?(r) and five Oscar?(r) nominations*, including Best Actor for Gerard Depardieu! Cyrano (Depardieu), a master swordsman and poet, feels he cannot woo his beloved Roxane (Anne Brochet) due to an unfortunate physical flaw: his grotesquely large nose. Resigning himself to helping another suitor, the dashing yet tongue-tied Christian (Vincent Perez), Cyrano uses his mastery of words to win Roxane forhim. But when Roxane finds that she has fallen for Christian's mindand not for his beautywhich of her two suitors will finally possess her heart? *1990: Foreign Language Film, Art Direction-Set Decoration, Costume Design (won), MakeupDirector Jean-Paul Rappeneau and cowriter Jean-Claude Carriere had the brilliant idea of casting France's most lovably vulnerable hunk, the massive Gerard Depardieu, in one of French literature's meatiest roles: the sword-wielding poet Cyrano. Equipped with a massive nose and a heart to match, Depardieu soars as the heart-broken soldier who must lend his words of love to another man to woo the woman he yearns for. Rappeneau spared no expense in taking this Edmond Rostand play into realistic locations for the battle scenes in the second act, making the film as exciting as it is romantic and funny. Depardieu attacks the role in great gulps, consuming all the oxygen in any room he enters. Macho but sensitive, he creates a larger-than-life Cyrano, whose wrenching sadness at the lack of interest from his lady love will have you reaching for the tissues. --Marshall Fine
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