today is 24 February. Its been a bloody crap day personally as well as the world as a whole. I know i have some anxiety issues & over think things, but today has pushed that quite a bit. Everyone look after yourselves okay. Its okay not to be okay & just go argh. You are brilliant & you are perfect, just remember that.

So i need to take my mind off everything & go to the cinema to finally go & see Cyrano. It keeps getting delayed due to covid & random shiz in america. However weve now got it 2 days before the rest of the world (we got it the day before). So yea im looking forward to this, mainly Mendelsohn in period costume, but i want to see if Peter really was robbed of his oscar nomination.

At one point during the film with no warning i sneezed. When i sneeze buildings shake. So i know exactly how many people were in the cinema with me, 8. I was the only odd one. Sorry to those 8 people, id had tried to calmed it if i had a warning.

Trailers, Phantom of the Open (yes thats booked) Lost city (yes) The Duke (yes thats booked) Downton Abbey (nope).

& then the film started… It was lovely. It really was. I like that i keep going to see lovely films at the moment, it helps the soul & was exactly what i needed on this Thursday evening to take my mind off the world right now.

So i know im not a voting academy & i know that what i say isnt taken seriously however… PETER DINKLAGE SHOULD BE UP FOR BEST ACTOR AT ALL THE AWARD SHOWS… PREIOD! I cant dismiss Denel as ive not seen Macbeth, however his performance is so much better than Bardem. There was nothing wrong with Bardem it was good, but i wasnt as captivated by it than i was with Peter as Cyrano. He was outstanding & its travesty hes not been nominated for me. Completely stole the show & it was a pleasure to watch him. He was so good i even forgot about Ben.

That being said there was a moment in the film where Ben (being the villain obviously) gets his own song & is being moody & puts on a long black cape & starts marching around… That i the most villainous thing you can so in a period drama. IT was such a mood & i was so here for it, it was brilliant. I mean he does quite do the cape justice like Rickman, no one can, but still. He got a cape & he was evil & i was like yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss.

The songs were all very nice & well arranged & were beautiful & romantic & even melted my heart a little, however because its mainly in rhyming couplets this film (which is a play so does explain why) there was a point where i was like hang on im done with this now thats a bit too much it really is.

The opening theatre bit is the highlight of the film, you know exactly who everyone is & you can pretty much work out exactly what is going down from those 7 minutes. Its a brilliant way to get everyone important in the one room despite half of them not knowing how important another person will be in their life going forward. It was a masterpiece.

The balcony scene, okay its not Romeo & Juliette, but its magical & the lighting & the shooting of it & how it just plays with everyones emotions is wonderful. a Three hander done superbly, & everyone just acts their little socks off.

People dont write letters anymore ( i mean you know the fact im blogging about films tells you all you need to know about modern writing), but some of those letter were just so poetic & imaginative & beautiful & lovely & you did feel the love for them. They were so lush.

When they go to war, i felt cold (& no Cineworlds heating is working again), it really was icy & horrific & not a nice place to be there. & the letters to home from there did make me think of the current situation in the world & how people feel. Id gone to the cinema to get away from that. I shed a couple of tears at that. & at the end of the film too (come see me once youve seen it).

The costumes were amazing, they felt right for the period & the story, but there would be times you would look at them & then think okay weve got a slightly modern twist to this how interesting & clever. I really likes the colours & the styles. IT all just felt so right & how a period drama should be done.

I found it sweet heart-breaking & beautiful & had to take a few deep breaths before getting up to leave my screening. IT really touched my heart & made me go all soft inside. IT really was the outlet i needed just to calm myself after everything that started today. A proper lush romantic story. Take you partner to see this on date night if they are into musicals & its a home run.