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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 lendhis 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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75 of 76 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Be warned! The subtitles on this release are awful! Only half of the dialogue has been transcribed into subtitles! If you love this film & don't speak fluent French you will be climbing the walls with frustration as you notice that line after line is not subtitled, compared to the full and complete subtitling available on the Taratn Video DVD edition. Buy that one instead! The 5 stars are for the film itself, which is a solid-gold masterpiece.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
The DVD from 2000 is very disappointing from a technical point of view, but this is a great improvement (it goes without saying that the film is wonderful). I had the earlier one and gladly replaced it with this and I'm here to spread the good news...
20 of 21 people found the following review helpful
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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.
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.
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This version has no subtitles
It is a recurring problem in Amazon manuvering and dechiphering different 'version' of the same product be it books, CDs, and in this case a DVD. Read more
Published 8 days ago by Mermaid on the Dolphin's Back
Why did I wait so long to watch this?
I am 33, French, and I had never watched this film till a week ago.
It is an absolute marvel. Depardieu is superb in it (I had heard he was but didn't realise how much) and... Read more
It is an absolute marvel. Depardieu is superb in it (I had heard he was but didn't realise how much) and... Read more
Published 21 days ago by C. Pechabadens
This is the expensive DVD but well sub-titled
For French speakers, any version will do but, for non-French speakers who depend on sub-titles, there are various versions, some of which are very poor, i.e. Read more
Published 6 months ago by RR Waller
Just wonderful
The heroic play of Cyrano de Bergerac was written by Rostand in 1897, echoing the much earlier classic French romantic works of Hugo, Gautier and of course Dumas. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Alvis
Great play, miscast Cyrano and a dull, flat English translation
"Cyrano" is one of the greatest verse plays ever written.
Unfortunately Gerard Depardieu is no Cyrano. Read more
Unfortunately Gerard Depardieu is no Cyrano. Read more
Published 20 months ago by L. E. Cantrell
New Pointed Direction
The battle of love between the rich and the not so rich set during the wars of religion. France assists the Dutch against the Spanish in the 30 years War. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Dr. Delvis Memphistopheles
Cyrano by Depardieu
Aweinspiring acting by Depardieu, spent much of the film in or close to tears, the use of subtitles in verse is very clever and compliments the acting perfectly, even when the... Read more
Published 23 months ago by Michelle Scutt
a master piece
A must have for romantics, poetics and lovers of quality films and also,for me was the amazing skill with words.
Published on 25 Jan 2010 by kouks
A Quality Epic
Don't be put off by the fact that this film is subtitled: it's so full of action that the dialogue can be regarded as secondary. Read more
Published on 12 Oct 2009 by W. Gaunt
"I can never be loved, even by the ugliest. My nose precedes me by...
Cyrano de Bergerac was originally a verse-play, written by Edmond Rostand in 1897. This story set in seventeenth-century France of the ugly man who helps another in his suit for... Read more
Published on 14 Jan 2009 by Nicholas Casley
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