Recreating his stage role, Jose Ferrer stars as Edmond Rostand's Cyrano, a 17th-century French cavalier, poet and swordsman whose prominent proboscis is the subject of many a duel. Cyrano is madly in love with the beautiful Roxanne (Mala Powers), but assumes that she'd never love him back due to his cathedral of a nose. Roxanne .. Read more
| Starring | Gerard Depardieu, Jacques Weber, Anne Brochet, Vincent Perez |
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| Director | Jean-Paul Rappeneau |
| Genres | Drama |
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Recreating his stage role, Jose Ferrer stars as Edmond Rostand's Cyrano, a 17th-century French cavalier, poet and swordsman whose prominent proboscis is the subject of many a duel. Cyrano is madly in love with the beautiful Roxanne (Mala Powers), but assumes that she'd never love him back due to his cathedral of a nose. Roxanne is also loved by the handsome Christian (William Prince), who unfortunately can't put two consecutive words together when it comes to pitching woo. Cyrano agrees to help Christian win Roxanne by feeding him the right words for his midnight courtships and love letters; in this way, Cyrano can vicariously express his own ardor for the fair lady. Years later, Cyrano's deception is revealed, and he dies happily in the arms of his beloved Roxanne, who realizes that she has really loved Cyrano all along--by way of Christian. Cyrano de Bergerac wasn't seen by many paying moviegoers upon its original showing, but its relative box-office failure resulted in an early release to television, where it has remained a perennial attraction for the past forty years.~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
| Starring | Gerard Depardieu, Jacques Weber, Anne Brochet, Vincent Perez, Roland Bertin |
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| Director | Jean-Paul Rappeneau |
| Studio | TARTAN VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 12 mins |
| Certificate |  |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English, Cantonese, Chinese |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | Production year: 1990 To Rent: DVD: 20 Nov 2000 |
Exuberant version of the romantic French classic, using the rhymed couplets of the original. The English subtitles, in a rhyming translation by Anthony Burgess, are a distraction, though.
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Technical Quality - nul point
Poor picture quality and audio (only 2-channel) does not do justice to this masterpiece. It was obviously amateur night at Tartan Video when they mastered it.
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A truly masterpiece!
A truly masterpiece. It deserves a five star. I gave 4 1/2 stars because some poems are not translated into English properly in the subtitles, it was hard to ... read more »
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MMMmmm...bubble...but not gum
Excellent adaptation. Poor couplets, no real understanding of the sensibility of the original: what an overblown tragedy of an author Burgess was. Still it has ... read more »
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Cyrano de Bergerac
The description of this film is confused. It refers to Ferrer's 1950s version when it is Depardieu who stars in this version.
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