Joe Wright’s ‘Cyrano,’ Starring Peter Dinklage

Peter Dinklage and Kelvin Harrison Jr. in Cyrano.
Photo: Peter Mountain/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc.

Cyrano is, technically speaking, Joe Wright’s first musical film, but you could say he’s been making musicals his entire career. Think back to the tribal-ritual-style dances of Pride and Prejudice; to the tireless, techno-inflected action scenes of Hanna; to the grand, balletic gestures and click-clack tempos of Anna Karenina. Even his Churchill-at-war drama The Darkest Hour has a ferocious, developing rhythm to it; the much-discussed scene in which Gary Oldman’s Winston Churchill finds himself chatting up ordinary citizens on the London Underground is shot and cut like a show-stopping musical number, just…

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