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Cyrano de Bergerac

Cyrano de Bergerac

Movie · 1990 · 3 people

Directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau, this 1990 French period comedy-drama adapts Edmond Rostand's 1897 stage play, with a screenplay by Rappeneau and Jean-Claude Carrière. The story unfolds in seventeenth-century France, where Gérard Depardieu plays Cyrano de Bergerac, a Gascon soldier who is as gifted with words as he is with a sword, yet believes his unusually large nose makes him unlovable. Unable to confess his love for the beautiful Roxane, he agrees to help Christian, a handsome young recruit who lacks any gift for language, writing passionate letters and verses in the younger man's name. Roxane falls in love with the soul behind those words without knowing who truly wrote them, and the deception ends in heartbreak for all three. The film drew over 4.7 million admissions in France and won ten César Awards in 1991, including Best Film, plus the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film and an Oscar for costume design. Depardieu received the Best Actor prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Anne Brochet, Vincent Perez and Jacques Weber co-star.

DirectorJean-Paul Rappeneau

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Vincent Perez Vincent Perez Film actor · 62 years old Philippe Morier-Genoud Philippe Morier-Genoud Actor · 82 years old Sandrine Kiberlain Sandrine Kiberlain Film actor · 58 years old

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Yeşilçam Nostalgic A viewer raised on the classics, looking for warm storytelling and strong acting.

Edmond Rostand's play is a bedside favourite for lovers of literature, and Rappeneau has made a film worthy of it. Gérard Depardieu's Cyrano dazzles with both sword and tongue, and he beautifully conveys the fragility of a man convinced his nose makes him unlovable. The letters written to Roxane under another man's name will touch anyone who believes in the power of words. Jean-Claude Carrière's work on the screenplay preserves the delicacy of the verse. The Best Actor prize at Cannes and the ten Césars were well deserved. A true classic.

Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

In bringing the stage text to the screen, Rappeneau pulls off the hardest part: he keeps Rostand's verse dialogue while giving the story a genuinely cinematic breadth. Depardieu's performance is the film's load-bearing pillar; he holds physical bravado and inner fragility in the same frame, and the Best Actor prize at Cannes is the reward. The costume design, as the Oscar confirms, makes the period convincing. My reservation: Christian is often reduced to a plot function, and Vincent Perez is given little room to deepen him. Anne Brochet's Roxane, too, sometimes struggles to be more than an ideal. Even so, over 4.7 million admissions in France and ten Césars prove that a literary adaptation can achieve popular and artistic success together.

Action & Thriller Fan Puts pace, tension and set pieces first; little patience for slow drama.

A soldier who handles a sword and has no equal at a cutting remark: on paper, Cyrano is a born action hero. Depardieu carries that with sheer energy. But don't sit down with the wrong expectations; this isn't a fight film, it's a love story that moves forward through letters and poems. The long speeches in verse are a challenge if you want pace, yet the acting is so strong it carries you to the end.

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