Overall this is an average postwar french production with minimal settings are inexistent cinematography, except some fine and well taken cartoons accompanying cyrano s description of his space travels. The 1990 movie is based on a 1897 play by edmond rostand gerard depardieu, bons. The entire play is written in verse, in rhyming couplets of twelve syllables per line, very close to the alexandrine format, but the verses sometimes lack. Cyrano, the charismatic swordsmanpoet with the absurd nose, hopelessly loves the beauteous roxane. An extremely rare version of the all time most popular french play recently made available on dvd. In 1946 hampden passed the torch to jose ferrer, who won a tony award for. A full hour after the curtain fell, the audience was still applauding. Cette section est vide, insuffisamment detaillee ou incomplete. So chivalrous cyrano pours his heart out to roxanne for his friend, and she, wooed by the beauty of cyranos words, falls for christian. Since it first saw the light of night on a parisian stage in 1897, it never goes long unperformed in some form or other. The garutso balanced lens is an insitu camera lens effectively simulating a faux 3d effect by keeping the foreground and background in focus at the same time. Gerard depardieu gives a towering performance as the title character in this lavish, cinematic, and poetic adaptation of edmond rostands.
Hes full of love and generosity but his perceived ugliness prevents him engaging with the. Cirano di bergerac trama cast recensione scheda del film di fernand rivers con ellen bernsen, pierre bertin, christian bertola, claude dauphin, rene sarvil trailer programmazione film. On imdb tv, you can catch hollywood hits and popular tv series at no cost. His success in the role enabled him to be the first actor to bring cyrano to the big screen in english. The charismatic swordsmanpoet helps another woo the woman he loves in this straightforward version of the play. There is some good battle scenes and some action scenes and even some killingbut what little bloodshed is done in this film is done with good taste and relavence to the story instead of a bunch of meaningless killing like as seen. Select any poster below to play the movie, totally free.