Cyrano de Bergerac

Gérard Depardieu portrays the title character – a brilliant, charismatic swordsman with a generous spirit and a genius for poetry, and a swashbuckler with a large nose of which he is self-conscious but pretends to be proud of. He is madly in love with the beautiful Roxane; however, he does not believe she will requite his love because he considers himself physically unattractive.

What follows is a tale of deception, with Roxane falling in love with the ineloquent Christian thanks to Cyrano's words of love.

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As his town floods, an old man is forced to add levels onto his home in order to stay dry. But when he drops his favourite pipe into the watery levels below, his scuba-diving search for the pipe prompts him to keep on descending and relive scenes from his life.

Image above: Detail from 'Cyrano de Bergerac'. Credit Palisades Tartan / source BFI