the 2019 off-Broadway musical it’s based on. Back then I called the show, which also starred Dinklage, “black eyeliner set to music.” That’s still true, only now it’s black eyeliner set to music with lavish sets and costumes.So, it’s absolutely terrific if you press “mute.” “Cyrano” is a love story you’ve already seen even if you don’t realize you have.
It’s about a French poet who doesn’t look like everybody else (here, the large nose is changed to the character being a little person) yet falls in love with the beautiful Roxanne (Haley Bennett).
That’s tough, because not only is she being courted by the wealthy, menacing De Guiche (Ben Mendelsohn), but she is also infatuated with young, hot, stupid Christian (Kelvin Harrison Jr.).So, to be closer to her, Cyrano feeds love poems and phrases to Christian for Roxanne, so she can fall in love with him by pretty-boy proxy.The tale has been adapted countless times — the movie “Roxanne,” an episode of “The Brady Bunch,” the YA comedy “Sierra Burgess Is a Loser,” a 1973 Broadway musical starring Christopher Plummer, among others.The new movie, directed by Joe Wright and written by Dinklage’s wife Erica Schmidt, ranks with the most lifeless adaptations.
Even the swishy dances are a downer.Dinklage could one day make a very fine Cyrano in a version without singing and more of the humor that made his Tyrion Lannister on “Games of Thrones” a fan favorite.
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