PREVIEW: Cyrano (12A)

WHO’S IN IT?

Peter Dinklage (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), Haley Bennett (The Girl on the Train), Kelvin Harrison Jr. (Luce), Bashir Salahuddin (A Simple Favour), Ben Mendelsohn (Mississippi Grind), Monica Dolan (Days of the Bagnold Summer), Joshua James (Summer in February), Ray Strachan (The Grudge), Anjana Vasan (The Children Act), Ruth Sheen (Another Year)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Joe Wright (Darkest Hour), director; Erica Schmidt (film debut), writer; Tim Bevan (Atonement), Eric Fellner (Anna Karenina) and Guy Heeley (Locke), producers; Aaron Dessner (C’mon C’mon) and Bryce Dessner (The Two Popes), composers; Seamus McGarvey (The Greatest Showman), cinematographer; Valerio Bonelli (The Woman in the Window), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

In historical France, dwarf wordsmith and master swordsman Cyrano de Bergerac (Dinklage) is convinced that his stature and appearance makes him unworthy of the love from the beautiful Roxanne (Bennett). When she falls for the handsome but unrefined Christian (Harrison Jr.), Cyrano works with him to truly express his feelings through his words and Christian’s speech…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Peter Dinklage sings his heart out in this musical adaptation of the famous tale of Cyrano de Bergerac, from director Joe Wright who brings the stage version to visceral and plentiful life.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 25TH FEBRUARY 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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