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Article: Stumbling toward ecstasy: Cyrano de Bergerac as comedy in Martin's Roxanne and Well's The Truth about Cats and Dogs
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- Literature/Film Quarterly
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- January 1, 1999
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Within a period of nine years, film audiences have enjoyed three adaptations of Edmond Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac. In 1987 Steve Martin's film Roxanne delighted audiences; in 1990 Jean-Paul Rappeneau's Cyrano de Bergerac won favor with Gerard Depardieu in the title role: in 1996 Audrey Wells produced her delightful screenplay The Truth about Cats and Dogs that switches the sexes of the three protagonists and, by doing so, raises important social issues. The production of these three films suggests that Rostand's play is a rich expression of the confusion of love, the frustration and fears lovers encounter when dealing with one another, and the hope for that which is nearly ...
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Article: Cyrano de Bergerac: Alfano.
Opera Canada;
September 1, 2005 ;
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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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