Cyrano continues Joe Wright's path as a middlebrow Baz Luhrmann, somehow resulting in the most conventional musical film of 2021. rockmarooned's review:
is a musical, the last of this year’s bumper crop, and it seems ideally suited for the style of director Joe Wright, which merges theatrical and cinematic sensibilities under the common goal of showing off. Wright, last seen dropping the ball on making a heavily stylizeddespite his obvious skill set, has made it his business, sometimes self-consciously, to let the stuffiness out of period dramas, using tracking shots or moving sets or Keira Knightley as would-be release valves.
In that balcony scene, Wright uses a split diopter on some shots to keep both Cyrano and Roxanne in focus; between this and , he’s obviously keyed in to the technical trick du jour now that the epic tracking shot has been given a rest.is, like most of Wright’s work, a pleasure to look at, even when the filmmakers labor to showcase their invention. Yet in the field of big, splashy productions having fun with their own pageantry, it becomes impossible to avoid thinking about how the more movies he makes, the more Wright seems like Baz Luhrmann cursed with “good” tastes.
Luhrmann merges show-offy cinematic technique and outré theatricality with a palpable sense of joy; Wright often does it with a more dutiful air—or maybe it just feels that way because so much of Cyrano feels a little mopey. Dinklage does soulful work; it’s no minor feat to make his character’s withholding look poignant rather than self-pitying, nor to make some of Cyrano’s more pedestrian and/or expositional lines sound vaguely poetic.
Not having much foreknowledge of the 2018 stage musical this film is based on, it took me most of the running time to figure out what, specifically, these songs sounds like: Weird covers of indie rock mainstays the National. Key members of that band—Aaron Dessner, Bryce Dessner and Matthew Berninger, along with the band’s non-performing lyricist Carin Besser—wrote the songs, and the band’s style is an odd match for other singers.
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