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  2. Cyrano (film) - Wikipedia

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    Cyrano is a 2021 romantic drama musical film directed by Joe Wright and produced by Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, and Guy Heeley, from a screenplay written by Erica Schmidt, based on the 2018 stage musical by Schmidt, Aaron Dessner, Bryce Dessner, Matt Berninger, and Carin Besser, itself based on the 1897 Edmond Rostand play Cyrano de Bergerac.

  3. The Half of It - Wikipedia

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    It is loosely inspired by Edmond Rostand's 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac, and follows a Chinese-American student helping the school jock woo a girl whom, secretly, they both desire. The film was released worldwide on Netflix on May 1, 2020. It received positive reviews from critics, who mostly praised Wu's direction and screenplay, as well as ...

  4. Edmond Rostand - Wikipedia

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    Chantecler is a cockerel and the characters are birds and animals. "Chantecler" is the great play of Rostand's maturity, expressing Rostand's own deepest feelings as a poet and idealist. The Romancers one act play is one of Edmond Rostand's most famous plays. This play is found to be read for study in the courses of many universities of the world.

  5. Yearning, despair and heartbreak is all it took to get ... - AOL

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    Erica Schmidt fell in love with the music of the National, and asked the band to write for her stage production of 'Cyrano.' The screenplay was next. Yearning, despair and heartbreak is all it ...

  6. Review: 'Cyrano' update at Pasadena Playhouse is all about ...

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    Mike Donahue directs Martin Crimp's free-hand adaptation of Edmond Rostand's classic "Cyrano de Bergerac' in a production starring Chukwudi Iwuji in the title role.

  7. Cyrano de Bergerac (play) - Wikipedia

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    Sierra Burgess Is a Loser (2018) is a Netflix original movie that is a gender-swapped adaptation, set at a high school. [citation needed] #Roxy (2018) is a Canadian romantic comedy film and a modern retelling. [53] The Most Beautiful Girl in the World (2018) is a German comedy/romance film and in the 21st century. [citation needed]

  8. List of film adaptations of Cyrano de Bergerac - Wikipedia

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    Bigger Than the Sky (2005), in which the protagonist auditions for a local community theater production of Cyrano de Bergerac, and the movie plays out with it as the background theme Cyrano Agency (2010), a South Korean romance-comedy of a group of actors and stage experts working as professional love makers by writing monologues, staging ...

  9. Chantecler (play) - Wikipedia

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    Disillusion and how to overcome it is also a personal theme. Rostand wrote the play for Benoît-Constant Coquelin, known as "Coq" (the French word for a cockerel/rooster), who had created the role of Cyrano de Bergerac in 1897. But Coquelin died of a heart attack in 1909 (clutching, it was said, a copy of the script of Chantecler).