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Cyrano de Bergerac | 
 enlarge | Director: Jean-paul Rappeneau
Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Anne Brochet, Vincent Perez, Jacques Weber, Roland Bertin
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Category: DVD
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Rating:  85 reviews
Sales Rank: 5954
Format: Dvd-video, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 137 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.5
MPN: MGMD1005998D
ISBN: 0792859634
UPC: 027616902276
EAN: 9780792859635
ASIN: B0000YEENU
Theatrical Release Date: December 1990
Release Date: February 10, 2004
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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 lend his 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
Product Description
A dashing officer & romantic poet cyrano falls in love with roxane without her knowing. He resorts to writing letters to her on behalf of one of his cadets chrisian who is in love with roxane but doesnt know how to tell her. She falls for the poetic charm of the letters but thinks christian wrote them. Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 07/24/2007 Starring: Gerard Depardieu Anne Brochet Run time: 138 minutes Rating: Pg
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 A great French film for the whole family November 19, 2008
mondele (Rockford, IL USA)
Cyrano has its romantic side, but unlike many French films, this one is safe for the whole family. The tragic romance of Cyrano and Roxanne is beautifully played out, with marvelous poetic pacing and the soaring spirit of Cyrano undaunted by any of his failures. I love the part when Cyrano says he's practically lived Don Quixote. Great film for guys and girls.
 classic french litterature movie adataption October 31, 2008
F. Bois (New haven CT)
One of the most famous characters of the french litterature, played by gerard depardieu, in an other movie adaptation. Great acting, beautiful recreation of the historical setting. Yet, Depardieu's supporting cast fails to live up to the other characters' true potential. Poor english subtitles.
Sentimental, but also captivating June 22, 2008
Compulsive Reader (New York, New York)
Depardieu is a brute in life, but a sublime actor. His interpretation of Cyrano is faultless. A wonderful film.
The Ultimate Cyrano March 14, 2008
Victor Wolfram (Walnut Creek, CA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Seventy-five years ago, when I was 12 years old, I saw Walter Hampden play Cyrano on a New York stage. Now Depardieu has given me the ultimate Cyrano. The supporting actors also deserve praise, and the entire production merits a place in the top ranks of French cinema. Of course, Rostand's play lacks credibility, but when it is done this well we suspend our disbelief. Even beyond the superb acting, excellent photography and elaborate crowd and battle scenes, this movie's perfection is in the details. The English subtitles are credited to Anthony Burgess of "Clockwork Orange" fame; at the very least they are based on the Burgess translation of the stage version, and offer an Anglophone audience a graceful equivalent of the form, meter and rhyme of Rostand's original French poetry. The background music is noteworthy, but a final touch of perfection could be missed by most viewers. As the credits roll at the end of the film, the background music mirrors the typical closing form of many 17th-century French ballets and operas, and we hear a French Chaconne.
One of the high water marks of French cinema December 16, 2007
Trevor Willsmer (London, England)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
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.
Sadly, there's still not a particularly satisfying English-friendly DVD release for the film - MGM/UA's Region 1 disc is disapppointing while even Arrow's UK PAL release only has brief interviews with Rappeneau and Depardieu as extras. One for Criterion to get round to, surely?
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