divi & cinema-la Sicilia diventa la Francia del 600 per il film di Joe Wright

A cura di
M. Avveduto

The wonderful Sicily with all its historic buildings and extraordinary scenarios is transformed into France in the 1600s thanks to the visionary mind of the great master of Oscar-winning cinema, Joe Wright.
The London-based director chooses some of the most beautiful places on our island for his film version of Cyrano de Bergerach.
A mix of territorial beauties, a brilliant mind and a stellar cast coming straight from Hollywood.
"Cyrano", this is the title of the film produced by Metro Goldwin Meyer with Wolking Title Films and Mestiere Cinema. And among the producers stand out the names of Guy Heeley, Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan. Guy Heeley has been a producer of such films as "Summerland", "London Spy", "The Escape", "Redemption" and "Locke". Eric Fellner is one of the partners of the British production company Working Title Films and producer of films such as "Elizabeth", "Bridget Jones's Diary", "Love Actually", "The Interpreter", "Rush" by Ron Howard, "La theory of everything "," Captain Corelli's mandolin "," Johnny English "," Everest "and many others. Executive Producer of films such as "Notting Hill", "Fargo", "Brother, Where Are You" by the Coen Brothers, "The Soloist" by Joe Wright. "Fellner since 2005 is part of the Order of the British Empire, an order of chivalry with which were also awarded the Beatles and David Bowie. Tim Bevan instead is co-founder of "Working Title Films" in London and producer of films such as "Elizabeth", "Bridget Jones's Diary", "Captain Corelli's Mandolin", "Johnny English", "The Italian Job", "Love Actually", "The Interpreter", and many others.
The great Joe Wright has chosen enchanting places in our Sicily. Starting from Noto in the province of Syracuse which hosted four months of pre-processing and over a month or more of filming of the film, then there are also Syracuse with the Maniace Castle on the island of Ortigia, Catania with the wonderful Palazzo Biscari and the rocks of Etna, and to finish in the solitary and mysterious church of San Matteo in Scicli.
The film "Cyrano" is the first musical directed by Wright and is inspired by the theatrical adaptation written by Erica Schmidt, wife of actor Peter Dinklage, who is also the author of the film adaptation of Wright, already staged in Off-Holywood.
The reality the film "Cyrano" directed by Wright is based on the novel Cyranò de Bergerac written by the French author Edmond Rostand.
Cyranò de Bergerac is a play in five acts published in 1897 and is inspired by the seventeenth-century writer, Cyrano de Bergerac, striker of science fiction literature.
The work was first presented in a Paris theater in 1897.
Cyranò de Bergerac is a gruff swordsman with a very long nose, poet and writer.
His skill with the sword is legendary and his compromise-prone character makes him rich in many enemies, whom he likes to ridicule with verses.
Cyrano is unstoppable and scary with sword in hand but his heart is tender and he suffers for his cousin Rossana (Roxanne) with whom he is madly in love.
One evening at the theater Cyrano humiliates an actor for daring to look at his Rossana and challenges a gentleman who had upset him to a duel.
Following this, Rossana invites him to a secret meeting.
Cyrano thinks that the beautiful Rossana finally wants to show him her love for her.
On the road that leads him to Rossana, Cyrano meets a pastry chef friend who is followed by several hit men, and this is yet another opportunity for Cyrano to demonstrate all his skill by drawing his sword.
He then goes to Rosanna ready to reveal his love for her as soon as the woman declares herself. But the woman has something else in mind, in fact Rossana takes advantage of the meeting and in the name of the affection that binds the two of her declares her love for a young cadet Cristiano de Neuvillette.
Cyrano is invited by the woman to protect Cristiano and for the affection that binds him to his cousin and then for the friendship that will be born between the two he will keep her promise.
Cristiano is a nice guy, honest, brave and loyal but he doesn't have the artistic vein of Cyrano.
Cyrano tries in every way to teach the art of poetry to Cristiano who is indisposed to it, but which would be very welcome to Rossana.
It will be Cyrano himself who dictates the verses to Cristiano under Rossana's window and will replace him during the poetic performance during the famous rhyme "What is a kiss".
Cristiano manages to conquer the beautiful Rossana but is hindered by the evil and powerful De Guiche, who has lost his mind over the beautiful woman.
The war that has just broken out is a reason to remove the two lovers and so Cristiano is sent to the front, alongside him also Cyrano.
Cyrano does not miss an opportunity to stay close to his Rossana and finds a way in the romantic letters he writes to her, however, once again, mistaking himself for his friend Cristiano. Every day Cyrano risks his life to get to the front to send letters for his Rossana.
One day a carriage arrives at the cadet camp driven by a pastry chef friend whose life Cyrano saved. The beautiful Rossana descends from the carriage, who has arrived there risking her life to see her in love with her: Cristiano.
Cristiano knows very well that he is not the author of the letters and invites his friend Cyrano to express his feelings to her cousin so that she can freely decide who to love.
Cristiano is ready to sacrifice himself for the happiness of the beautiful Rossana and her great friend Cyrano and thus decides to volunteer for a dangerous reconnaissance that he manages to do but returns seriously injured.
Cyrano tries to help Cristiano but by now the young man is sighing. Before dying he asks Cyrano if he has made the gesture of telling the truth to Rossana and who is the lucky one she has chosen.
Cyrano lies to his friend on the verge of death, saying that Rossana knows the whole truth and that she, without any second thoughts, chose the young Christian.
Cyrano has never said anything to Rossana and after Cristiano's death, the beautiful young woman decides to retire to a convent.
Every Saturday for years, Cyrano goes to visit Rossana's kitchen.
But one day, on the way to the convent, the swordsman Cyrano falls into an ambush and is seriously wounded.
With his last strength he manages to reach the convent and not miss his only purpose in life, to meet his beloved cousin every week.
For the first time he arrives late from her woman, and invited by her to read Cristiano's letter, Cyrano repeats it from her memory. It will be then that the woman understands that there are too many coincidences which she has not followed up and she finally understands that Cyrano is the man who gave life to all her dreams but it will be too late: Cyrano dies.
The last words with which Rostand ends with the death of Cyrano de Bergerac are: << Here rests Cyrano Ercole Saviniano, Lord of Bergerac. That in his life it was everything and it was nothing! I'm leaving ... Sorry: she can't wait for me. The ray of the moon, here, comes to call me >>.
We look forward to the opera brought to the stage by the legendary Joe Wright with a stellar cast that reincarnates the most beautiful edition of Cyrano de Bergerac.
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