Cyrano

A man ahead of his time, Cyrano de Bergerac dazzles whether with ferocious wordplay at a verbal joust or with brilliant swordplay in a duel. But, convinced that his appearance renders him unworthy of the love of a devoted friend, the luminous Roxanne, Cyrano has yet to declare his feelings for her—and Roxanne has fallen in love, at first sight, with Christian.

  • Released: 2022-01-06
  • Runtime: 124 minutes
  • Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
  • Stars: Peter Dinklage, Haley Bennett, Brian Tyree Henry, Ben Mendelsohn, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Bashir Salahuddin, Ray Strachan, Monica Dolan, Glen Hansard, Sam Amidon, Joshua James, Anjana Vasan, Ruth Sheen, Scott Folan, Mark Benton, Richard McCabe, Peter Wight, Tim McMullan, Mark Bagnall, Mike Shepherd, Paul Biddiss, Katy Owen, Paul Hunter, Celeste Dodwell, Celeste Dring, Bettrys Jones, Nandi Bhebhe, Colin Mace, Lucas Peters, Leo Rait, Kyla Goodey, Beverly Rudd, Giles King, Carl Grose, Sarah Wright, John Locke
  • Director: Joe Wright
 Comments
  • stillamanda00 - 5 January 2023
    Unconcerned Whimsy
    This film was a complete surprise to me. As someone who dislikes musicals, I loved this film with all my heart. Sure, there were imperfections (especially that song by the Duke, which I think could have been worded differently to make everyone including me just a bit more comfortable), but even then that really didn't matter in the unique scope of this film. In my very probably insignificant opinion, this film was purely whimsical. And filled with a rare joy for an almost inexplicable art. Finally, can I just say that Peter Dinklage is an amazing actor and showed so much depth and emotion that really made this film. I think few can pull off his level of subtilty and his charisma is 1 in a billion. Together with Haley Bennett, I think they truly guided a beautiful performance of the particularly unique and beautiful whimsy of the writing and directing in Cyrano.
  • Snootz - 10 December 2022
    Fantastic potential, but...
    This movie had everything going for it. Great actors, a great script, good directing, good photography. But it had one significant flaw: it was a musical.

    Don't get me wrong; I ordinarily love musicals. But I didn't know this was a musical going in, so the first song surprised me. Okay, it's a musical. But what I discovered was an incredible dramatic movie in which-- rare for me-- the music ruined it.

    I am a fan of musicals. I've seen just about every musical that has come along. But first the music in this wasn't all that distinctive or impressive. More importantly, it fit neither the story nor the actors.

    The actors did a fantastic job, both with the story and with the music. But this would have been so much better as a straight dramatic rendering. Instead every time it built up to an emotional climax, someone threw a musical number in to drag it down.

    That's a shame, because this had the potential to be the best presentation of this story I've ever seen. In this one case-- if this had not been a musical it would have (in my opinion) been far better.

    For this I can only give it a mediocre rating. Despite my love for musicals, this is one film in which they'd have done better otherwise.