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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 9780792859635
Format: DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792859634
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 10, 2004
Running Time: 138 minutes
Sales Rank: 2171
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 1990-12
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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® and five Oscar® 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 for him. But when Roxane finds that she has fallen for Christian's mind and not for his beauty which of her two suitors will finally possess her heart?Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: FOREIGN/LATIN Rating: NR UPC: 027616902276 Manufacturer No: 1005998
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Director 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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Rating:  - Sentimental, but also captivating
Depardieu is a brute in life, but a sublime actor. His interpretation of Cyrano is faultless. A wonderful film.
Rating: - The Ultimate Cyrano
Seventy-five years ago, when I was 12 years old, I saw Walter Hampden play Cyrano on a New York stage. Now Depardieu has given me the ultimate Cyrano. The supporting actors also deserve praise, and the entire production merits a place in the top ranks of French cinema. Of course, Rostand's play lacks credibility, but when it is done this well we suspend our disbelief. Even beyond the superb acting, excellent photography and elaborate crowd and battle scenes, this movie's perfection is in the details. The English subtitles are credited to Anthony Burgess of "Clockwork Orange" fame; at the very least they are based on the Burgess translation of the stage version, and offer an Anglophone audience a graceful equivalent of the form, meter and rhyme of Rostand's original French poetry. The background music is noteworthy, but a final touch of perfection could be missed by most viewers. As the credits roll at the end of the film, the background music mirrors the typical closing form of many 17th-century French ballets and operas, and we hear a French Chaconne.
Rating: - One of the high water marks of French cinema
Jean-Paul Rappeneau's wonderfully cinematic version of Cyrano De Bergerac is one of the genuine high water marks of modern French cinema. Rappeneau is a director who really understands movement, and his far from static approach revitalizes the piece and frees it from the tyranny of the wonderful words to give it wings, while Gerard Depardieu's magnificent Cyrano keeps the film's emotions beautifully grounded. For once the supporting characters aren't played as idiots: Christian is no fool, merely an inarticulate man increasingly aware that his is a false victory, and the Comte De Guiche is allowed more dignity than you'd expect from a part that's usually reduced to mere comedy villainy.
Almost everything about the film is perfect, from Rappeneau and Jean-Claude Carriere's superb screenplay to Jean-Claude Petit's restrained score, which subtly underlines the emotions rather than play up the pathos (a shame his action cues use a thinly-disguised version of Danny Elfman's Batman theme: someone obviously fell in love with the temp track). Wonderful stuff, even if Cyrano takes longer to shuffle off this mortal coil than Brando did in Mutiny on the Bounty.
Sadly, there's still not a particularly satisfying English-friendly DVD release for the film - MGM/UA's Region 1 disc is disapppointing while even Arrow's UK PAL release only has brief interviews with Rappeneau and Depardieu as extras. One for Criterion to get round to, surely?
Rating: - "We All Have Our Wounds"
Note: Will require a multi-region DVD player to view in the America's.
This French language film adaptation of the classic 'Cyrano de Bergerac' released in '90 is without question the most enjoyable 138 minutes in front of the television screen I've experienced in quite some time. Everything about this production is absolute perfection; cinematography, settings, music, screenplay and of course acting.
Gerard Depardieu is an unstoppable force of nature as the eloquent but hot-headed Cyrano. He thunders and rages about one moment only to suddenly turn ethereal and wax poetic the next. The lovely Anne Brochet is a wonderful compliment to the blustering Cyrano as his unattainable Roxane and Vincent Perez delivers a strong performance as the handsome but slow tongued Christian.
The dialogue is crisp, textured and witty, however if you're French impaired as I am you'll probably have trouble keeping up. But that's OK, you'll just catch the missing parts the next time you watch and you will definitely watch again and again.
Rating:  - Superb Depardieu
Edmond Rostand's 19th play is brilliantly adapted here by director Jean-Paul Rappeneau, and perhaps when I watch the film again I may give it 5 stars like the other reviewers.
Depardieu dominates the film with a stunning performance. This is most evident in the first half of the film where he does everything with a style and feeling that is missing from so many films these days. The acting overall is of a very high standard and the script, even allowing for translation and subtitle misinterpretations is beautifully done.
The reason I have not awarded it five stars is for one main reason. After the brilliant first half of the film, the second half just seemed a little less focused to me and overall I felt the film was a little too long. The ending in particular dragged a bit. Its probably exactly as per the original play, but for me this didn't work on film and it felt a bit hammy.
However this is a minor criticism and overall I strongly recommend the film.
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