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Fletcher Powell looks at a movie that he says breathes new passion into a familiar story.

The story of Cyrano de Bergerac, originally told via Edmond Rostand’s 1897 play, is one of those unique tales that can be told and retold in multiple d

This musical version of the classic French tale is a mish-mash of ideas that fails to come together.

Joe Wright is at his best when he’s making movies about love. They may not always have a happy ending. In fact, they usually don’t. But truly romantic movies seem to be a rarer and rarer thing in contemporary cinema and, like Max Ophuls and Jacques Demy before him, Wright is almost peerless in his ability to make an audience swoon and suffer in maximalist splendor.

This musical version of the classic French tale is a mish-mash of ideas that fails to come together.

This musical version of the classic French tale is a mish-mash of ideas that fails to come together.

Newsweek spoke to "Cyrano" actors Peter Dinklage, Haley Bennett, Kelvin Harrison Jr. and director Joe Wright about the new musical, out on Friday, February 25.

Game of Thrones star brings a piercing commitment to the title role in Joe Wright’s solemn screen adaptation of Rostand’s play

Scripted by Dinklage’s wife Erica Schmidt and directed by Joe Wright, the adaptation is an old-fashioned musical in period costume but with new songs by indie rockers The National.

We speak to director Joe Wright about this career so far and making his latest movie, Cyrano.