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#Cyrano de bergerac film 1990 review full#

This includes the volatility of the diva-esque Maria ( Mathilde Seigner), a prostitute-turned-actress installed by the aforementioned Corsican backers (she was mistress to both) as leading lady Roxanne the wooden stage stylings of Coquelin’s hapless - and pivotally virginal - actor-son, Jean (Igor Gotesman) Coquelin’s legally consequential feud with another theater’s management plus his further financial issues costume troubles and, later on - in full “Noises Off” fashion - a curiously placed trap door.īut it’s the semi love triangle comprised of Rostand, Léo and Jeanne that spins out in twisty, unplanned ways, giving the story its charmingly stirring, if at times morally shaky, romantic center and supplying crucial fodder for Rostand’s evolving play. He eventually churns out (in three weeks!) a five-act romantic tragicomedy that’s inspired in part by his own dizzyingly unfolding world.Īs if penning the play weren’t nerve-wracking enough (Rostand is seemingly also directing), there’s an amusing merry-go-round of backstage tumult conspiring to upend the production at every turn. All that’s needed is, uh, the play, which Rostand ends up frantically writing as rehearsals barrel along.

#Cyrano de bergerac film 1990 review series#

Suddenly, though, a giddy series of events involving renowned oddball actor Constant Coquelin (a wonderful Olivier Gourmet) a cultured cafe owner (Jean-Michel Martial) with a fortuitously stocked library Rostand’s handsome, if slightly dense, actor-friend, Léo (Tom Leeb) the new object of Léo’s affection, pretty costumer Jeanne (Lucie Boujenah) a pair of dubious Corsican investors (Simon Abkarian, Marc Andréoni) and much else combine to get Rostand writing again: a new play (in verse!) loosely based on the adventures of 17th century French writer Cyrano de Bergerac.īefore you can say “Let’s put on a show!” a theater is booked a cast, featuring Coquelin as Cyrano, with his protuberant nose, and Léo as love-struck cadet Christian, is assembled and an opening date is set. Meantime, his rival, the farcical playwright Georges Feydeau (Michalik), is the toast of the town - something of which he’s happy to remind Rostand.

Times are tough for the beleaguered Rostand, who’s trying to provide for worried wife Rosemonde (Alice de Lencquesaing) and their two young children in costly Paris while struggling to reignite his creative mojo. His last play was a fusty thing called “The Distant Princess” that starred iconic stage actress Sarah Bernhardt (Clémentine Célarié, enjoyably grand) and quickly tanked.

#Cyrano de bergerac film 1990 review movie#

Set mainly in 1897 Paris, the movie swirls around poet and dramatist Edmond Rostand (a nimble Thomas Solivérès), who, at 29, hasn’t written anything new in two years.

This fanciful piece, written and directed by Alexis Michalik, based on his popular play “Edmond,” owes more than a passing debt to “Shakespeare in Love,” among many other stage-centric films, while staking its own claim as a brisk, funny, sneakily poignant love letter to words, plays, playwrights and actors.

The delightful, buoyantly performed period comedy “Cyrano, My Love” ricochets from backstage to onstage to offstage - and beyond - as it recounts a largely fictionalized origin story of the most enduring French play of all time, “Cyrano de Bergerac.”