Cyrano De Bergerac

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Summary: Depardieu and Rappeneau make a Smashing, Unforgettable Film
Review: This is my favorite film of all time. The camera work is incredible, the sets and costumes are incomparable, and the film is, in gereral, a visual feast. Depardieu is a touching, sensitive, and yet handsome, dashing Cyrano--he was born to play this role. Every cast member is delightful, although Vincent Perez , who is still awfully funny and charming, would not have been my first choice for Christian. The subtitles are very skillfully translated and retain a good bit of the poetry found in Rostand's play, on which this film is based. I could not more enthousiastically recommend any other film.

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Summary: Genious.
Review: This is an inspired adaptation of a marvelous play. Gerard Depardieu does an extraordinary performance, taking the viewer to tears and laughter with equal ease. The directing is also fantastic. Worth learning French for.

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Summary: Simply the best.
Review: This production is simply the best Cyrano. How I wish that it was available on DVD!

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Summary: The Best Cyrano Ever!
Review: This is the best Cyrano de Bergerac I have ever seen! Gerard Depardieu is one of my favorite actors. In his always well rounded style, he captures your imagination and pulls you into this classic love story. If anyone is causous of seeing this movie because it is in French, then you shouldn't be. The fact that it is in French only enhances it's style and mode setting. This movie is a must see!!

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Summary: A literary Master Piece
Review: This book depicts a man that all of can relate to. Cyrano was a proud man that had faults as does all men. In order to make for his faults he over excentuates his other qualities. He faces trials and tribulation in love and war and over comes them in the end with nothing more than realizing that his dream of Roxanne finally loving hime came true. END

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Summary: Magnifique!
Review: This film was absolutely brilliant; it was beautifully shot, superbly cast, and the acting . . . suffice it to say that if you've only seen Depardieu in garbage like Green Card, you've no idea how gifted this man is. He is amazing, and the final scene is just something that has to be seen; it can't be described. For my money, you can never get too much Vincent Perez (again, stick to his French films), and Jean-Claude Petit's score is breathtaking; it's available on CD, but only as an import.

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Summary: Heartbreaking! Such is the fate of the poet.
Review: This film is a poem to the enduring pulse of true love and the complex nature of beauty - at once a flickering flame that draws the eyes and then a source of warmth that melts the heart. Cyrano, the poet extraordinaire who's sword is as sharp and fast as his wit, has carried a torch for the beautiful Roxanne as long as can be remembered, the brightness of which has been hiding in the shadow of a grotesque deformity: a large misshapen nose. "I can never be loved even by the ugliest. My nose precedes me by 15 minutes." Like Cyrano, Roxanne is a Romantic where words are windows into the soul, but she's fallen in love with the handsome young musketeer, Christian, who unbeknownst to her, has not the gift for poetry. And so Cyrano becomes the voice of Christian, thus expressing in letterform the depth of his love for her. Roxanne becomes intoxicated, but is blinded by the external beauty of Christian, and remains ignorant of the fact that as her love has grown, Cyrano is really the object of that love. Such is the fate of the poet! Depardieu as Cyrano gives a moving portrayal that is both heartbreaking and heroic.

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Summary: Deeply moving stroy
Review: Ah! What a movie! A beautiful cast, an excellent movie, a story that will leave you think and re-think the purpose and meaning of life and love. True love, lost love, vain love, life with and without love, love of the rimes and the language, hope for love... I don't want to give out more. It is one of the best movies in this category ever made.

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Summary: Love and War
Review: The movie Cyrano de Bergerac is a romantic love story is about a guy name Cyrano, played by Gerald Depardieu (who is a great actor), who falls in love with a girl name Roxanne (his cousin), but she has a crush on somebody else, a young cadet name Christian. Cyrano is a brave sword fighter who can go up against a hundred men but when it comes to love he is not that brave. Cyrano is a great poet who writes all these poems for Roxanne but he hides his love for Roxanne because he is afraid that he might get rejected because of his enormous nose. This movie has great meaning that says, "Look inside a person, not at the outside." Love is something that is hard to explain. I know we've all been there. Love can make you do crazy things, like, for example, when Cyrano pretended to be Christian in one part of the movie when she cannot see him from her balcony or when Cyrano wrote the poems for Roxanne saying they were from Christian. My favorite scene from the movie was when Cyrano interrupted the play at the theater and started making a big scene he even made fun of himself in the scene. I didn't really liked the ending to this movie; it is sad when Cyrano died at the end I would've change the ending and make it have a happy ending. This movie is an amazing movie that I suggest you all go and check out for yourself. I saw this movie for the first time in class. Once you see this movie you'll be amaze by how great this movie is.

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Summary: What happened with this denied Oscar for Depardieu ?
Review: If Jose Ferrer won more than deservedly the Academy Award , Gerard Depardieu must have received his prize too . In this sense , pitifully a great injustice was done .
The amazing effort made for Jean Paul Rappenau in the rebuilding of the story were simply sublime : artistic direction , photography , superb adaptation and the radiant presence of this billion thousand carats : Gerard Depardieu made of this film a strong candidate to win a great number of Prizes .
But what it happened is part of a very sad story .
In my personal opinion , Depardieu has made five unforgettable films in this order: Danton , Cyrano , Tartufe , Jean de Florette and Novecento .
So when you acquire this issue you will have something much more important than a simple movie ; you will take your home a glorious masterpiece of the French Cinema .