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Starring:<\/strong> Peter Dinklage, Haley Bennett, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Ben Mendelsohn, Monica Dolan, Mark Benton<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Director:<\/strong> Joe Wright<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Release date:<\/strong> 25th February 2022<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Cyrano de Bergerac (Peter Dinklage) is a talented poet and soldier in the French army, whose best friend since childhood has been Roxanne (Haley Bennett), a beautiful and well-to-do woman who is way above his social class. Cyrano has been a loyal and trusted friend to her for the majority of her life and offers advice when needed. Thing is, he harbours feelings for her that he feels she can never know.. he thinks she could never love someone who looks as he does.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

One day she comes to him to say she is in love. His heart jumps for joy but then she reveals it\u2019s with a guy named Christian (Kelvin Harrison Jr.) who has just joined the army. She asks him as a fellow soldier to help Christian in any way possible and keep an eye out for him. Cyrano is heartbroken but agrees.. How will he handle knowing that the woman he loves only has eyes for another? All he can do is obey Roxanne\u2019s wishes and become a friend to Christian..<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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A brand new adaptation for the big screen of the story of Cyrano de Bergerac, sees Peter Dinklage reprise the role he played in the Off-Broadway stage version of \u2018Cyrano\u2019 back in 2018. The story is a very well known one, with most people probably remembering Steve Martin\u2019s take on the story in the 1987 movie, \u2018Roxanne\u2019 starring Daryl Hannah. The premise was very different but the core story was the same.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The new movie is a full-on musical adaptation of the original 1897 play by Edmond Rostand, which will have you riveted from start to finish. The songs, mostly written by the band, The National are earworms as soon as you hear them and there are some fantastic cameos by some very well known vocal performers too.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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A totally immersive and spectacular movie, lovers of musical theatre will thoroughly enjoy \u2018Cyrano\u2019 from start to finish. It will also hopefully appeal to watchers of Peter\u2019s other movies and TV series.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I have to say though that this feels like a totally Oscar worthy performance from Peter Dinklage.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Make sure to watch this on a big screen. I can guarantee it will be one that you\u2019ll watch more than once..<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Overall:<\/strong> 8.5\/10<\/span><\/p>\r\n","post_title":"Cyrano Review","post_excerpt":"Poet and soldier","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"cyrano-review","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-12-05 12:20:49","post_modified_gmt":"2024-12-05 12:20:49","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207524","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207425,"post_author":"5","post_date":"2022-02-07 15:47:06","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-07 15:47:06","post_content":"

Directed By:<\/strong> Mamoru Hosoda<\/span><\/p>\n

Studio:<\/strong> Studio Chizu<\/span><\/p>\n

Classification:<\/strong> 12 A<\/span><\/p>\n

Running Time:<\/strong> 124 mins (2hrs 4mins)<\/span><\/p>\n

Audio:<\/strong> English, Japanese<\/span><\/p>\n

Subtitles:<\/strong> English<\/span><\/p>\n

Distributor:<\/strong> Anime Limited<\/span><\/p>\n

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From the Oscar nominated director - Mamoru Hosoda (Wolf Children, Summer Wars, Mirai), comes his latest animated feature film - \u2018Belle\u2019<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

We return to an integrated social media society, with technology that allows a user to dive right into a whole other world where they can recreate themselves using their \u2018biometrics\u2019. Which is exactly what 17 year old Japanese high school girl Suzu does in order to escape her self isolating life. Through her new form and online identity, she finds the courage to sing aloud again through the social networking platform - \u2018U\u2019. Her performance soon begins to gain immense momentum, as she rises to the top of the music charts, with regular performances and expert promotion from her classmate - Belle becomes an online icon.<\/span><\/p>\n

Belle is idolized by her fans, although much like reality there are also many that scrutinize her, with cyber bullying and trolls being a constant presence. Just like how many are hoping to unmask Belle and discover her real life identity - just as many are also after the \u2018beast\u2019 known as The Dragon. A highly skilled fighter that has been making a name for himself in the online combat circuit, who is also being chased down by a self-righteous vigilante group led by superhero wannabe Justin. As Belle and the \u2018Beast\u2019s\u2019 paths cross during one of her performances, Suzu develops a fascination into doing all she can to uncover just who The Dragon is. From here Suzu seeks him out, only to find his castle and the story of Disney\u2019s Beauty and the Beast begins to be recreated almost scene for scene. The similarity in this film is too on the nose for my taste.<\/span><\/p>\n

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However there is plenty of character development, a very entertaining music score and performances, as well as real depictions of everyday life in a Japanese countryside town. As well as a high school girl's normal life, as she struggles with her feelings of not being enough, the loss of her mother, developing a first crush and the complexity of \u2018mean girl politics\u2019 in school. But then there is a massive curve ball I never saw coming! One that was so shocking, that I don\u2019t think the viewers were really prepared for it. This film is emotional, for instance with Suzu who lost her mother in a very tragic way several years ago, she has since grown distant from her father every day and also has so little confidence that she instead prefers to sing underneath a table than stand with the local choir club she is with. There are a number of interesting characters within this film, ones I wish were explored just a bit more, perhaps with an extra 30 minutes this may have been achieved. \u2018Belle\u2019 doesn\u2019t feel entirely original, it has so many similarities to a number of Hosoda\u2019s other works including the first Digimon film and Summer Wars. It is still far from Hosoda\u2019s best, but it is still worth checking out even just for the visuals and music.<\/span><\/p>\n

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And if that wasn\u2019t enough, I have to give a massive shout out to the Oscar\u00ae-nominated team of Tom Moore and Ross Stewart from Irish animation studio - Cartoon Saloon (Wolfwalkers, Song of the Sea, The Secret of Kells), who brought to life the fantastic scenes that are part of the virtual world \"U\".<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018Belle\u2019 is currently playing across Irish and UK cinemas, thanks to the hard working people over at Anime Limited (<\/span>https:\/\/www.alltheanime.com\/<\/a>). So make sure to catch it if you can on the big screen, as I am sure Anime Limited are already working hard on bringing out their physical release of \u2018Belle\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n