BRICK

Correct.

It was an odd mix of a high school drama crossed with an old fashioned wisecracking private detective movie.

A period movie

XD No

Correct on Gerard Depardieu part, wrong on the movie.
Another hint : maybe the best work on subtitle from French to English

Le Femme Musketeer? (it's the only other movie I can remeber he played a musketeer in)
you Sush, or I'll tell you donkey's your cheating on them with mules here on the forums...

No, not the musketeer either.
Another hint : Jose Ferrer gets an Oscar for playing the titular character in 1950 english version

oh yeah the movie I didn't see makes sence now

The nose is the key.

"C'est un roc ! C'est un pic... c'est un cap !
Que dis-je, c'est un cap ? C'est une péninsule !"

Aaah! THE nose... now I know the name of the film in spite of never having seen it hehe :-)

all rigggghhhttttt seeing how no one else can say it .......
Cyrano de Bergerac

Finally!

- Lug your guts away, salami, or stay and I'll remove you slice by slice! -

- Why keep your silence for so long when all the time the tears on the letter were yours?

Cyrano: The blood was his. -

here try this

Is that Peter Weller?