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Shoutout to joe wright period pieces about yearning… gotta be one of my favourite genders

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"eww she fuck the weed man for weed" - a bitch who's fucking the letter man for letters

Review by davidehrlich ★★★

Just when you think you’ve seen it all, Joe Wright — one of the last true men in Hollywood cinema — rebounds from the folly of his “Woman in the Window” with a full-throated musical adaptation of “Cyrano de Bergerac” soundtracked by The National, shot during COVID on Sicily (with hundreds of lavishly costumed extras singing a mope rock banger on the snowy peak of an active volcano!), and starring Peter Dinklage as a lovelorn poet who possesses the courage to sword-fight 10 men at a time but not the pride to confess his feelings to the one woman he’s loved for all eternity.

Maybe it’s just the clown makeup and corsets talking, but there are moments during Wright’s “Cyrano”…

Review by Ella Kemp ★★★½ Liked

Confirms my lifelong conviction nobody knows what love sounds like quite like The National

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You know what's better than sex? Recieving a letter.

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To laugh in the face of Joe Wright’s vision of love is to reject a handmade Valentine’s Day card from your second grade crush. 

That card might have candy that comes slightly melted. It perhaps commits a bit too hard to its own shabbiness, when a store bought “Aladdin” card would do. But, the sentiment eclipses its failings. With respect to Wright’s “Cyrano,” not all failings; though, many of them can be forgiven under threat of sentimental purity. 

“Cyrano” wears its earnestness as openly as its principle character - typically - wears the nose on his face. The metaphor here though, does not apply, since Peter Dinklage appears without abnormal schnoz. That is to say, he is… quite a handsome…

Review by fran hoepfner ★★★

Ben Mendelsohn doing sort of a Russell Crowe Javert thing. do with that what you will!

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Sorry but you can't hire a band that has spent two decades honing their fairly distinct sound to write songs that sound exactly the same as the rest of their music and then have random actors sing it in a period piece as if that isn't super fucking weird

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This did NOT need to be a musical, but alas it was and it threw everything off. Also probably one of the tackiest period pieces I’ve ever seen. Dinklage was fantastic in this, I’m shocked they gave the Oscar nom to Bardem instead of Dinklage. I’m mixed on this one but overall was entertaining. My mom cried during the last 15 minutes of the film but I kept asking myself “why are they SINGING”.

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CYRANO is so unabashedly romantic that it certainly won’t work for everyone. It did melt my cyncical heart by the end but just barely. This is easily one of Peter Dinklage’s best performances. He’s so intelligent, funny & deeply empathetic. He broke my heart. Costumes are a standout, though I took serious issue with the brightly lit, almost soap opera quality of the cinematography.

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tfw you want Atonement/Anna Karenina Joe Wright to show up and Pan Joe Wright sashays through the door instead.

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In of 2021 musical performances peter dinklage deserved the oscar nomination that andrew garfield got for tick tick boom and i will not be taking any criticism on this point