The Man Who Cried
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• Anamorphic
• Closed-captioned
• Color
• Dolby
• DTS Surround Sound
• Dubbed
• DVD-Video
• Widescreen
• NTSC
In Theaters : 2000
DVD Release : 02 January, 2002 |
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The Man Who Cried description
Fans of the testudinate pace and art-house vibe of writer-director Sally Potter's other works (Orlando, The Tango Lesson) will likely enjoy The Man Who Cried. Fegele (Christina Ricci) is a Russian Jew separated from her father as a child. Raised as "Susie" by an English family, she makes her way to Paris, where although the city's multiculturalism is vibrant, the Nazis are already on the rise and the secret of her origin becomes increasingly dangerous. The cast of The Man Who Cried is excellent; Cate Blanchett, Johnny Depp, John Turturro, and Harry Dean Stanton all do fine jobs in what could have easily degenerated into an accentfest. Depp and Ricci do very well with minimal dialogue--both go through the entire movie almost without speaking. The film moves at a leisurely pace and is beautifully shot. Not a film to show to a roomful of action movie fans, but it's well suited to people who like their films a little more European in flavor. --Ali Davis |
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Blanchette and Depp shine in tedious, depressing film
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In this one Johnny Depp portrays a gypsy. With long hair, a thin moustache and a Romanian accent, he is sly, seductive and sultry. He appears in about 22 sequences. Cate Blanchette is over the top but so is the character she's playing. Set in the decade between 1927 and the rise of Naziism in Paris in the late thirties, the plot follows the life of a young girl whose father has left for America and who is separated from her family and friends by a pogram. Ricci plays her as a trauma victim, quiet and depressed through most of the film.
This is the problem - the center of the film, the girl herself, is so boring, so uninteresting, that we find it hard to believe that the charming, man-hungry Blanchette befriends her and that the seductive Depp falls in love with her. It just doesn't make sense. She remains a child throughout the film, silent, hardly talking, occasionally singing. She never becomes a woman emotionally so the interest of others in the narrative doesn't ring true.
The score is truly lovely, weaving some lovely arias around original scoring. The cinematography is good, darkly atmospheric - her world has little light in it.
The story itself is as depressing as it could be. Hiding her identity as a Russian Jew in Nazi-occupied Paris, she is lusted after, betrayed and finally shipwrecked in her attempt to get to America and reunite with her father who believes her to be dead and who has gone on to father a second family.
The film's title is meaningless and hardly one to attract audiences. The only man who cries in the film is Depp during their last night together, but since no point had been made before that he doesn't cry, the scene is meaningless. ALso, one would think a title would refer to a main character, not a supporting one. Even GYPSY LOVER, bad as it is, would be a more apt title.
To sum up, a depressing film about a depressing girl, made bearable by Depp's sensual performance and Blanchette's exuberant one.
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