Cyrano and dArtagnan
6 /10 1 Votes
Duration Language French | Director Abel Gance Country France | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Release date 25 September 1964 (1964-09-25) (NYFF)
22 October 1964 (1964-10-22) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cyrano and dArtagnan (French: ) is a 1964 French adventure film directed by Abel Gance, starring Jose Ferrer and Jean-Pierre Cassel. It is set in 1642 and tells the story of how the poet and duelist Cyrano de Bergerac teams up with the musketeer dArtagnan in order to stop a plot against king Louis XIII. The film draws from Edmond Rostands play Cyrano de Bergerac and Alexandre Dumas dArtagnan Romances. Ferrer repeated his role from the 1950 film Cyrano de Bergerac. Cyrano and dArtagnan had 651,213 admissions in France.
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Eugene Archer of The New York Times reviewed the film: "Judging strictly by the title, Cyrano and DArtagnan does not sound a bit more promising than Samson Meets Hercules. Strange to say, despite the auspices of the New York Film Festival and the reputation of the 75-year-old director, Abel Gance, there is really not much difference between the Cyrano epic and the kind of dubbed Italian spectacle usually inflicted on us by Joseph E. Levine." The critic continued: "Jose Ferrer, repeating his Oscar-winning Cyrano role 14 years later, gives a flat and clumsy performance, while Jean-Pierre Cassels DArtagnan is swaggering and singularly lacking in charm. ... Let it be said for the director, known mainly for a silent triple-screen Napoleon in the nineteen-twenties, that he displays a nice eye for color. Otherwise, his handling of a routine commercial assignment is just that�routine."