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Cyrano De Bergerac [DVD] [1990]

DVD ~ Gérard Depardieu
4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Anne Brochet, Vincent Perez, Jacques Weber, Roland Bertin
  • Directors: Jean-Paul Rappeneau
  • Writers: Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Edmond Rostand, Jean-Claude Carrière
  • Producers: André Szots, Michel Seydoux, René Cleitman
  • Format: Full Screen, PAL
  • Language French
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: All Regions
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: U
  • Studio: Palisades Tartan
  • DVD Release Date: 20 Nov 2000
  • Run Time: 132 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004Y3OX
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 66,406 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Amazon.co.uk Review

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

Special Features

4:3 Full Frame
DVD 9
French
Region 0
Dolby Digital French
Dolby Digital
Interview
Production Notes
Scene Selection
Star And Directors Filmographies
Still Gallery
English
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56 of 57 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Cyrano de Bergerac, 8 Dec 2006
By Mr. C. J. C. Barker - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cyrano De Bergerac [DVD] (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.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Fab film - rotten transfer to DVD, 22 Mar 2005
One of my favourite films and a delight on almost every level - the language is so lilting, the poetry so beautifully timed that it makes you want to improve your French just so you can understand it better...

The only drawback here, as another reviewer has noted, is the comparatively poor visual quality. How can a film made only 15 years ago be in such bad shape? It wasn't a deal-breaker for me - in some ways the slightly musty quality enhances the Renaissance feel of the story - but try as I might, getting a widescreen image ratio on my TV meant the subtitles dropped off the bottom of the screen. Frustrating.

However, I still had to have it - and in all honesty the shortcomings were forgotten after about ten minutes when the magnificent story took over.

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the high water marks of French cinema, 23 July 2006
By Trevor Willsmer (London, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cyrano De Bergerac [DVD] (DVD)
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.
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5.0 out of 5 stars 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 15 days ago by kouks

5.0 out of 5 stars 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 4 months ago by W. Gaunt

4.0 out of 5 stars "I can never be loved, even by the ugliest. My nose precedes me by fifteen minutes".
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 13 months ago by Nicholas Casley

5.0 out of 5 stars This is the one to get!
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). Read more
Published 17 months ago by N. C. Bateman

4.0 out of 5 stars 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... Read more
Published on 25 Nov 2007 by S J Buck

5.0 out of 5 stars Cyrano and Depardieu, with panache
In a Parisian theater, where Cyrano has just run off a portly, mannered spouter of bad verse, a man makes the error of noticing Cyrano's nose. Read more
Published on 15 July 2007 by C. O. DeRiemer

5.0 out of 5 stars Wins By a Long Nose
In this magnificent film, Gerard Depardieu does his best job in all the movies I've seen from him. The story is so beautiful and the mise-en scene is just incredible, simulating... Read more
Published on 24 May 2007 by Jay

5.0 out of 5 stars Depardieu's finest performance.
Depardieu's finest performance comes in this, one of the greatest Film adaptations ever made. It stands a great chance coming from one of the greatest books of all time of course,... Read more
Published on 4 Dec 2006 by M. Warburton

5.0 out of 5 stars Rostand's play brought to life.
Depardieu is a master as Cyrano. A romantic story filled with the prose and poesie of the period brings to life the new era following the middle ages. Read more
Published on 17 April 2006 by Caribou

5.0 out of 5 stars All I have left is my panache
Any film with the line "all I have left is my panache" has to be worth a viewing or two.
It is a film which will touch the heart of any man who's mind is beautiful than... Read more
Published on 10 Mar 2006 by G. R. Fullam

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