A dazzling masterpiece, Jean-Paul Rappeneau's Cyrano de Bergerac was showered with awards ... more
and five Oscar nominations on its release and became one of the most successful French films ever made.Cyrano's legendary skill with a blade is matched only by hi...
Cyrano (Depardieu) master swordsman and poet feels he can not woo his beloved Roxanne ... more
(Anne Brochet) due to an unfortunate physical flaw: his grotesquely large nose. Resigning himself to helping another suitor the dashing yet tongue-tied Christian (...
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Noted swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is madly in love with Roxane but is ashamed of ... more
his deformed nose and feels he cannot tell her face to face. She in turn is hopelessly smitten by the handsome but tongue tied Christian. Cyrano de Bergerac chivalrously writes love poems for Christian to give to Roxane that eventually win her affection.
The Academy Award winning performance from Jose Ferrer as Cyrano de Bergerac in one of the ... more
most spectacular and romantic epics ever to grace our cinemas screens.Cyrano de Bergerac is a 1950's cinematic adaptation of Rostand's famous romantic play circa 1896, based on the character of Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac, a 17th century duellist, wit, poet, musician and self-styled philosopher.
Drama - Director: Kevin Smith - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring: Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler, George Carlin, Jennifer Lopez, Jason Biggs, Matt Damon
Production Year: 2002 - Drama - Director: Michael Caton-Jones - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: Robert De Niro, Frances McDormand, James Franco, Eliza Dushku, William Forsythe, George Dzundza, Patti Lupone
Production Year: 2004 - Drama - Director: Nick Cassavetes - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over, 12 years and over - Starring: Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, Gena Rowlands
Advantages: Sumptuous Masterpiece Disadvantages: Its has Subtitles
very familiar?
Well my answer to that is yes it is very familiar you may have seen a film made in 1987 called Roxanne. Which starred Steve Martin and Darryl Hannah and is a very touching and tender romantic comedy. However CyranodeBergerac, for me, beats it hands down every single time.
THE FILM ITSELF
Starring Gerard Depardieu, Anne Brochet and Vincent Perez are simply stunning as the love triangle each contributing elemental level to passion going on between them. Depardieu is a perfect Cyrano loud and brash but at the same time hiding a hurt that fester within him. His love for Roxanne is like a diamond he treasures within a silk glove. Brochet?s Roxanne is ethereal in her beauty and her blindness to Cyrano?s love, because of her passion for Christian, totally believable. Perez as Christian is excellent portraying the 15th ...
Advantages: Wonderful dialogue, characters, and ideals in the ultimate romantic tragedy Disadvantages: I can never get through this with dry eyes!
Speak of Romantic Tragedy, and everyone sighs for Romeo and Juliet, but for me it has always been Cyrano! Personally, I am of the opinion that Romeo and Juliet is more of a classic example of Black Comedy, but I digress...This review will reveal details, so be warned.
Cyrano is someone made to Love and be Loved; Expansive, majestic, noble, honorable, poetic, tender, proud and free.When berated by a dandy for his lack of fashion, Cyrano puts him (and all others who are too wrapped up in appearances) in their place with a brief, but rousing and eloquent lecture.
"I carry my adornments on my soul....I go caparisoned in gems unseen, Trailing white plumes of freedom, Garlanded with my good name -no figure of a man, but a soul clothed in armor, hung with deeds for decorations, twirling - thus- a bristling wit...and on the stones ...
Advantages: A wonderful classic which will never go out of date. Disadvantages: Wierd plot line, in fact barely any plot line, strange characters! Subtitled.
Film Only Review
A Bout De Souffle (translated to Breathless in English)
Details:
Directed By: Jean Luc Goddard
Release Date: 7 February 1961
Runtime: 90 minutes
Language: French (English Subtitles)
Starring:
Jean-Paul Delmondo
Jean Seberg
Plot:
Filmed in black and white despite the use of colour coming into use in the film industry in 1935 with the film Becky Sharp by Rouben Marmoulian (this was the first film which was considered a real full length film, but colour was used before this too between the 1920s and 1930s.)
A Bout de Souffle is about a small time criminal Michel Pioccard, who is living in Paris. He has stolen a car, and in the mix he killed the police officer persuing him, no longer a small time thief, he then tries to persuade a young American journalist working in Paris to run away to Italy ...
A "Grimm-er" Live Action (PG) Take on This Classic Brothers Grimm Tale, Directed by the Screenwriter/Co-Author of Edward Scissorhands (Caroline Thompson)
Possibly Not Suitable for Younger Children (not Disney Animation "Pretty-Pretty" version) - Miranda Richardson dominates the action and steals the show as the stepmother. (*)
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