Another one of my favorite movies is "Cyrano de Bergerac". (the 1990 version with Gerard Depardieu). The whole poet/soldier embarrassed by his appearance and romancing a woman by proxy is intriguing. The sets, costumes and battles scenes are terrific as well.
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"Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies."
Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936)
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