I've had the recent 2021 movie Cyrano on my "to watch" list for a little while. As a fan of the movie Roxanne, and the original work that both that movie and this one are based, I have also been a bit hesitant about watching it as well. I both liked and feared the fact that it was a musical (and an adaptation of a Broadway one, at that). Seeing it, both my hopes and my concerns were affirmed.
I genuinely enjoyed the movie, but I don't know how often (if ever) that I might see it again. The songs were moving, but not truly memorable. The production was artistically done, but perhaps too much so. The actors were all wonderful even if their characters were more like caricatures. Despite both being a musical and changing Cyrano's physical affliction from that of having a long nose to being extremely short of stature, I felt that this movie was quite true to the original play--almost to a fault. One thing that I deeply appreciated in movie Roxanne with Steve Martin was how well it was adapted to the 1980s, but this film tries to the recreate the late 1800s play in the time of the 1600s with the writing of the 2020s.
Still, I did enjoy the film. For me, Peter Dinklage--who plays the titular character--has yet to disappoint, and Ben Mendelsohn has become one of my favorite actors who plays characters that I love to hate. Haley Bennett and Kelvin Harrison Jr. both shined as Roxanne and Christian with magnificent voices to match. Thus, I recommend the movie if you have not seen it.
I genuinely enjoyed the movie, but I don't know how often (if ever) that I might see it again. The songs were moving, but not truly memorable. The production was artistically done, but perhaps too much so. The actors were all wonderful even if their characters were more like caricatures. Despite both being a musical and changing Cyrano's physical affliction from that of having a long nose to being extremely short of stature, I felt that this movie was quite true to the original play--almost to a fault. One thing that I deeply appreciated in movie Roxanne with Steve Martin was how well it was adapted to the 1980s, but this film tries to the recreate the late 1800s play in the time of the 1600s with the writing of the 2020s.
Still, I did enjoy the film. For me, Peter Dinklage--who plays the titular character--has yet to disappoint, and Ben Mendelsohn has become one of my favorite actors who plays characters that I love to hate. Haley Bennett and Kelvin Harrison Jr. both shined as Roxanne and Christian with magnificent voices to match. Thus, I recommend the movie if you have not seen it.
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