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Article: `Cyrano': Right on the Nose
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- December 20, 1990
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Gerard Depardieu brings his considerable girth and flamboyance
to Jean-Paul Rappeneau's burly adaptation of "Cyrano de Bergerac," a
swashbuckling burlesque of negative self-image, cowardice and
compromise. Though he doesn't really need it, Depardieu is equipped
with a prosthetic proboscis, a palpable trunk that inspires both
shame and swagger in France's enduring hero. But unlike poor Cyrano,
Depardieu wears the nose, the nose does not wear him.
First performed in Paris in 1897, Edmond Rostand's romantic
tragicomedy has been spruced up by Rappeneau and Jean-Claude
Carriere, who dismantled, analyzed and reconstructed each act while
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...CYRANO DE BERGERAC Alfano Alagna, Manfrino, Troxell, Rivenq. Orchestre National de ... English, French, Italian, German, Spanish Edmond Rostand's play, Cyrano de Bergerac (1897), has been the source of many films, including the classic ...
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