![]() ![]() Yet Wright - whose 2017 war drama Darkest Hour landed leading man Gary Oldman a truckload of awards including an Oscar - has created something at once visually beautiful and palpably heartbreaking. That Dinklage is married to Schmidt in real-life, and that he and co-star Haley Bennett are reprising their roles as Cyrano and Roxanne from Schmidt’s theatre production only ups the stakes. Yet Wright’s Cyrano, based on a screenplay by Erica Schmidt adapting her own 2018 stage musical, is superb by almost any measure even though I found myself wondering, “Who on Earth will queue to see this oddball, square-peg musical period piece starring Peter Dinklage… who sings.” ![]() ![]() ![]() Let’s not even count the previous film adaptations of Cyrano de Bergerac, the play written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand, set in 17th century Paris and based around a poet-soldier certain he is too ugly to claim the woman he adores, who then pours his love into letters sent to his beloved Roxanne by her handsome but otherwise ordinary paramour, Christian (here played by Kelvin Harrison, Jr.), who passes the missives off as his own. ![]()
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