Cyrano de Bergerac

Cyrano de Bergerac, yes, one of my all time favorite French films. Who can resist a line like this?

"My nose is Gargantuan! You little Pig-snout, you tiny Monkey-Nostrils, you virtually invisible Pekinese-Puss, don't you realize that a nose like mine is both scepter and orb, a monument to me superiority? A great nose is the banner of a great man, a generous heart, a towering spirit, an expansive soul--such as I unmistakably am, and such as you dare not to dream of being, with your bilious weasel's eyes and no nose to keep them apart! With your face as lacking in all distinction--as lacking, I say, in interest, as lacking in pride, in imagination, in honesty, in lyricism--in a word, as lacking in nose as that other offensively bland expanse at the opposite end of your cringing spine--which I now remove from my sight by stringent application of my boot!"

N'est ce pas?

Gerard Depardieu is Cyrano de Bergerac in this swashbuckling love story.

You can also read the book: Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmund Rostand translated by Anthony Burgess.

Gros bisous d'un nez dites péninsule et a demain!

Love, Charley