Cyrano, My Love

“He's got three weeks to write a masterpiece…”

How did a play get promised for Christmas when not one word of it exists? Paris, December 1897: Edmond Rostand (Thomas Solivérès), married with two children and short of money, has talked the great actor Constant Coquelin (Olivier Gourmet) into the lead. Alexis Michalik follows the poet through the weeks that remain, with the clock running and Edmond still staring at blank pages.