Movie reviews: 'Cyrano' is poignant film about heartfelt, human connections
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This week, TV pop culture critic Richard Crouse reviews new movies: 'Cyrano,' 'Studio 666,' 'Big Gold Brick' and 'Scarborough.'
The story of French army soldiers Cyrano de Bergerac and Christian, and the beautiful Roxanne is probably history’s most interesting case of catfishing. Written as a play in 1897 by Edmond Rostand, the love story of “Cyrano” has been reimagined as a musical by director Joe Wright.
When we first meet Roxanne (Haley Bennett), she is prepping for a date with Duke De Guiche (Ben Mendelsohn). She’s not enthusiastic; she’s holding out for real love, but the family is broke, and as her nanny says, “Children need love. Adults need money.”
What she doesn’t know is that her lifelong friend, King’s Guard swordsman Cyrano (Peter Dinklage), who has a form of dwarfism, but a larger-than-life personality, has been in love with her since the first time he laid eyes on her. “Even her imperfections are perfect,” he says to his best friend Le Bret (Bashir Salahuddin).
He has never told her—“My fate is to love her from afar,” he says—and may not get the chance to once she gets an eyeful of King’s Guard recruit Christian (Kelvin Harrison Jr.) and falls instantly in love.
