Film · 1990 · Comedy drama
Cyrano de Bergerac
Directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau
1990
France
★ 4.2 editorial score
Anthony Burgess translated the subtitles into rhyming couplets so English audiences would get the verse: Gerard Depardieu plays the nose and the poetry equally, and the swordfight is a poem too.
“The new film, one of the most expensive in the history of the French cinema, is a physically elaborate period spectacle. Seventeenth-century France is re-created in grand sets, magnificent costumes and the kind of crowd scenes in which everybody roisters heartily on cue.”
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