PG-13 | 2h 4min | Drama, Musical, Romance | 17 December 2021 (USA) After the promising releases of “Pride & Prejudice” and “Atonement,” director Joe Wright’s output could kindly be described as uneven. The now seven further features range in quality from very good (“Hanna,” “Darkest Hour”) to meh (“Anna Karenina”) to, well, no thank you (“The Soloist,” “Pan,” “The Woman in the Window”). Falling somewhere in the middle, “Cyrano” gets as much wrong as it does right and will leave the viewer with a frustrating feeling of what might have been. Prior to this release, there have been 25 other film adaptations, some of them very loose, of the Edmond Rostand play “Cyrano de Bergerac,” which is somewhat based on the life of the non-fictional titular French writer (1619–1655). This version of “Cyrano” has an interesting backstory as it is also based on a 2018 stage musical by Erica Schmidt that starred her husband Peter Dinklage …
Film Review: ‘Cyrano’: Director Joe Wright’s Clunky Musical Hits Multiple Sour Notes
December 17, 2021
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