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    Review: Peter Dinklage earns your love in the snazzy (but not schnozzy) musical 'Cyrano'

    by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times Feb 25, 2022 4 minutes
    Peter Dinklage, left, as Cyrano and Bashir Salahuddin as Le Bret in Joe Wright's " Cyrano."

    Since "Cyrano de Bergerac" has always been about the superficial nature of appearances, there's something fitting about the exterior renovations that have given rise to Joe Wright's sweet, earnest and sometimes enchanting new "Cyrano." For starters, the movie is a full-blown musical: Its roots lie not only in Edmond Rostand's 1897 play of romantic misdirection but also in a stage show that was written and directed by Erica Schmidt (who adapted the screenplay herself) and features songs and score by members of the National. And Peter Dinklage, who starred in that musical's 2019 off-Broadway production, superbly reprises his role here, giving us a Cyrano who is widely mocked not for an oversized proboscis but rather for a diminutive physique. The insults

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