Cyrano de Bergerac
by Jean-Paul Rappeneau
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Actor: Anne Brochet, Gérard Depardieu, Jacques Weber, Roland Bertin, Vincent PerezDirector: Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Brand: Sony
Cinematographer: Pierre Lhomme
Writer: Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Producer: André Szöts
Producer: Michel Seydoux
Producer: René Cleitman
Writer: Edmond Rostand
Writer: Jean-Claude Carričre
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 137 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-02-10
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
DVD Reviews of Cyrano de Bergerac
DVD Review: Cyrano And Depardieu, With Panache
Summary: 5 Stars
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. "Why are you looking at my nose? Does it disgust you," Cyrano asks with dangerous politeness. "No, not at." "Is it soft and dangling/" "I did not look at it!" the man protests. "And why did you not look at it?" Cyrano persists. "Sickened you, did it? Is the color all wrong? Is it obscene?" "Not at all," the man says, looking for a way out. "Why, then, do you criticize? Do you find it too large in size?" "It's terribly small, miniscule," the man stammers. "What was that?" Cyrano glares, "Is that an insult? My nose is small then, eh? My nose, sir, is enormous! Cretinous moron, a man ought to be proud of such an appendix. A great nose may be an index of a great soul...kind, endowed with liberality and courage...like mine, you rat-brained dunce, unlike yours, all rancid porridge. It would be grotesque to fist your wretched mug, so lacking as it is in pride, genius, the lyrical and picturesque, in spark, spunk...in brief: in nose!"
Cyrano (Gerard Depardieu) is a man with heart and spirit as large as his nose, a man who loves deeply, yet must love through another. When Roxane (Anne Brochet), his cousin whom he loves more than his life, gives her heart to Christian (Vincent Perez), he is so determined to bring her happiness that he provides the passionate words that this handsome young man, whose brain is as thick as mutton, will use to win her. Cyrano is convinced that his face will forever doom him to solitude, much less enable him to speak his heart directly to Roxane. "I can never be loved," he says to le Bret, one of his few friends, "even by the ugliest. My nose precedes me by fifteen minutes. Whom do I love? It should be clear. I love the prettiest far and near...the finest, the wittiest, the sweetest...the wisest...yes, Roxane." There will be years before Roxane realizes she had loved the man whose words she loved, not the man whose handsome face she saw.
Cyrano is a swordsman, a poet, a soldier, a playwright. He uses words with as much skill as he uses his blade. He'll fight a duel while reciting a poem he creates as he fights...and at the end...hit. If someone is rash enough to comment on his nose, he'll make a fool of the fop by describing all the comparisons a truly imaginative man would have used. He will never bend the knee, accept a sponsor, praise a mediocrity or knuckle to authority. None of that is for him; what he wants is to "sing, dream, laugh...move on...be alone...have a choice...have a watchful eye and a powerful voice...wear my hat awry...fight for a poem if I like...and perhaps even die."
This version of Cyrano features terrific production values, with great attention to settings, costume and style. The story moves along with duels and battles, love and lost love. Most of all, it moves along on the language and on the situation of Cyrano, himself. It's a French movie, but the subtitles were written by Anthony Burgess. The are soft and caressing, pungent, funny and sad. At times they move so effortlessly into couplets that it's only after you've read them that you realize how much they added to a scene. Depardieu is one of the great contemporary actors, and he creates a riveting Cyrano. Depardieu is a big man with thick shoulders and a deep chest. No one would likely call him handsome. He is a phenomenal actor, however. His Cyrano is imposing as he strides along a cobblestone street in his red cloak and black, plumed, wide-brimmed hat. Depardieu creates a Cyrano easy to imagine you might be a little like, or could be...if you had Cyrano's panache.
Tragedy, Cyrano isn't, but it's a wonderfully robust, sad, romantic melodrama. The DVD from World Films MGM looks fine to me. It's not anamorphic. There are no extras.
Description of Cyrano de Bergerac
One of France's literary treasures commands the screen with this "exceptionally graceful adaptation" (Los Angeles Times) that received a Best Foreign Film Golden GlobeÂ(r) and five OscarÂ(r) nominations*, including Best Actor for Gerard Depardieu! Cyrano (Depardieu), a master swordsman and poet, feels he cannot woo his beloved Roxane (Anne Brochet) due to an unfortunate physical flaw: his grotesquely large nose. Resigning himself to helping another suitor, the dashing yet tongue-tied Christian (Vincent Perez), Cyrano uses his mastery of words to win Roxane forhim. But when Roxane finds that she has fallen for Christian's mindand not for his beautywhich of her two suitors will finally possess her heart? *1990: Foreign Language Film, Art Direction-Set Decoration, Costume Design (won), MakeupDirector 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
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