Tonight on Netflix: A hilarious biopic is possible! And he is French!

Discover the incredible birth of the literary classic Cyrano de Bergerac, revisited with a comic sauce and taking its subject seriously. This is the movie Edmond’s Ambition, which is available on Netflix, and we can say that the bet has been won!

Edmond is set in 1897 and tells the story of writer Edmond Rostand (Thomas Solivere), who already has two children to support and has not written anything for two years. Panicked, distraught, he goes to the actor Constant Coquelin (Olivier Gourmand), to whom he offers an unpublished play, a heroic comedy, for which he has almost only the title in verse: Cyrano de Bergerac. No one believes it, and yet Rostan begins to write this play, despite the inconveniences of life, which try to throw him from this work, which is still vital to his life and which will destroy his destiny.

Before it was a movie, Edmond was a play written and directed by Alexis Michalik. Inspired by Shakespeare in Love, it explores the creation of one of the major works of French literary heritage, but dusts off the forms with a lively comedy that unfolds at a breakneck pace. It is this spirit that is found in the film, which is also signed by Michalik.

Edmonds is not a biopic in the American format, but retells the creation of a play that was created even though its author did not write a line. Therefore, Tony echoes the difference between the interpretation of Coquelin, who is going to play Cyrano and is full of enthusiasm because he has no choice – he is in debt as never before – and Rostan, who is desperate as the project progresses because he does not. The part is ready.

Positive and negative events follow each other and Soliveres gradually breaks down, and at the same time, the viewer finds himself taking elements from his personal life and inserting them into the work.

You don’t have to read Cyrano de Bergerac to appreciate Edmond, who greedily swallows himself, in an era and true history – fictional, of course – but remains completely believable. Sweets!