Cyrano de Bergerac
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Movie Reviews of Cyrano de Bergerac
Movie Review: A memorable tour de force !
Summary: 5 Stars
Puerto Rico must have done a big celebration when Jose Ferrer won the Academy Award for this unforgettable and artistic role . Cyrano is one of the most intimate pages of the romantic literature . Jean Rostand , the famous author sharped an emblematic character blending the passionate love surrounded for a rebel spirit. Cyrano was a rebel with cause in the widest sense of the word.
Michael Gordon could adapt into screen this novel giving to film an extremely and carefuly theatrical approach . Think about the glorius mesage of the work . Forget about your physical aspect ; Cyrano (Gordon and Rappenau) , The huntchback of Notre Dame (Jean Delanoy) and curiuosly The beauty and the beast (Jean Cocteau) meant an artistic triumph in the screen and The elephant man (Lynch) in the early eighties signified for the rest of the world the beauty is the sum of little details and not only a shinning face . Three of these three films were from France and the other one from U.K , but all of them were loaded of the purest romantic spirit of the early XIX Century.
This resource worked out to the sublime perfection in those hard times where the movie was inmersed in a chaos . A crossroad of possibilities were in the environement but it was a clear time of innovation and surviving .
The italian cinema wass emerging from the ashes of the war with Antonioni, Fellini, De Sica and Visconti as the most distinctive ambassadors .
UK. with David Lean , Carol Reed , Anthony Asquith and Ronald Neame twisting the fate of the british cinema with ne4w proposals .
However in Japan , Kenji Mizoguchi , Akira Kurosawa , Kon Ichikawa , Yasujiro Ozu and Kinugasa gave to japanese cinema a distinctive face with superb films .
But meanwhile when the american cinema found two clever roads as the film noir and the sci fi ; Elia Kazan , Otto Preminger and Stanley Kramer decided to face the social dilema with potent and disturbing films .
In this order of ideas , Gordon had the wonderful but risky inspiration of adapting a literature classic .
Gordon played hard and won fortunately for us ; the timeless cinema lovers .
Jose Ferrer made a dazzling and unforgettable performance with Cyrano ; the best role of his magistral career.
Movie Review: I love this version! Jose Ferrer is a GOD!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I absolutely LOVE this film! Everything about it is utterly genius. The cinematography, every actor, and the sets are great! The fact that the film is in balck and white does not detract one bit from enjoying the film, I promise.
Jose Ferrer is a master and I am almost at a loss of words to describe how amazing his embodiment of our hero Cyrano is! Mr. Ferrer astonished me when I saw the film for the first time with his deep commitment to Cyrano's spirit and the level to which he raises the hero is incredible! Often times, Cyrano will be played up to a point where he becomes unreal and just a pompous soldier, but the subtly of Mr. Ferrer's performance gives Cyrano color--so much color that you believe in him 100%.
I'd also like to give credit to Mala Powers and William Prince because they also did amazing jobs with their characters. Ms. Powers, as Roxane, was not some melodramatic ingenue who plays just smiles sweetly or cries--she is a much more convincing Roxane than most of the interpretations I have come across. It was quite a pleasure to watch her work her art...
Mr. Prince did a splendid job with Christian, too. He played his doubt, guilt, and heroic spirit very well, never stepping over the line with his interpretation (yes, there are times where he seems to be playing-up the young lover type, but it's what the character calls for). I'm sure that I haven't finsihed doing justice to Mr. Prince and Ms. Powers, but you still need to be able to read the review in under an hour...
So, yeah! DON'T wait to buy this film! It's incredible in every way! A true masterpiece.
Movie Review: My own dear love I love you not.....
Summary: 5 Stars
Everytime I watched this movie when I was growing up on television, I would cry when he said that one line. Cyrano to me was the very picture of what this time period is like, this is the version that I love more than all others. I was in my local Half Price Books when I saw the book, I picked it up and was thumbing through it when I realized that the DVD of the Jose Ferrar version was attached all for $5.98, joy. I have seen every version of Cyrano, even the Steve Martin take on it in Roxanne. Jose's tenderness and beauty in this part is something that I must admit that I have read some of the reviews and they say that it doesn't seem realistic to them. There was a time when men actually courted women with sweet words and kindness, when being a poet was something that you were praised for. I suppose that there will be people who think that there is something fantasy like in this character but I also know that he is based on a real poet living at the time that it was written. I find that it was something that endeared the character to me. I love Cyrano, he taught me at a young age that it is important to look beyond someone's features and see who they are. I am like the young woman who offered him a feast at the beginning of the movie, my eyes would have held no mocking in them. Jose Ferrer is amazing in this part, this is the one that I looked for and when I found it that Sunday afternoon, I ran to watch it because it had been my one true search for so long. The quality of my DVD is fine, it has that haze of older film but everything can't be HD, get over it and watch the movie.Movie Review: Bring me giants!
Summary: 5 Stars
Having never read Cyrano before (pardon me while I hang my head in shame) I wasn't familiar with the story. The character, yes -- nearly everyone knows something about the theme of this tale -- but I was terribly uninformed of the greatness of the story. Watching the movie opened up a wonderful world to me. I immediately liked the dashing yet vulnerable, heroic yet fallible, Cyrano. His heart is immense, his courage without reproach, his honor without blemish, and despite the almost superhuman-ness of him he is still a man with a man's weaknesses and fears. Ferrer played Cyrano with an almost fanatical passion, a greatness that the screen barely contains. I found him amazing! At my next trip to the library I borrowed the book and devoured it, discovering that the story and writing are treasures that I only wish I'd encountered years before.
Yes, I'm smitten with Cyrano. He's become a personal hero to me, a man who writes sterling poetry, defends his friends to the death, loves with ferocity, handles a sword as though he were born with one in his hand, serves his king and country nobly, keeps his honor pure throughout his trials, spins fantastical tales with ease, and through it all has a silent and noble strength that never falters. How lucky a man would be to have such a friend, and how fortunate a man would be if he could only BE such a man. Such a man do I endeavor to be.
Buy this movie and the book -- give yourself a treat and relish them both over and over. If you have romance in your soul and courage in your heart you will love Cyrano as I do.
Movie Review: 'Beautiful?!?'
Summary: 5 Stars
I grew up watching a lot of old movies, many of them black & white, there is something magical about them, something that makes them appear sort of dreamlike.
Perhaps it is the combination of the actually clearer contrast (as compared to color movies) with the lower overall film quality (resulting in a kind of 'haze' over the picture, perhaps it is the fact that many of the b&w era actors could actually [i]act[/i]........
I have the Alpha Video version and mine plays fine, except for one or two skips, not bad for a $ 2.00 DVD.....
This is one of my favorite movies of all time, regrettably not very well known in the US, Cyrano one of the most gallant and tragic heroes in literature.
Enough (genuine!) swordplay to satisfy the adventure movie fan, all the romance your girlfriend can handle, language and poetry to please the stoutest of Shakespeareans.
Get this movie. Get the book, too.