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Cate Blanchett, Christina Ricci, Harry Dean Stanton

A young refugee traveling from Russia to America in search of her lost father falls for a gypsy horseman.

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62% liked it

5,548 ratings

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35% liked it

68 critics

R, 100 min.

Directed by: Sally Potter

Release Date: September 22, 2000

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DVD Release Date: October 3, 2006

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Flixster Reviews (966)

  • irisheyes686
    May 19, 2009
    irisheyes686
    Johnny definitely didn't have a big enough part. I felt like his talent was wasted in this movie. It was a good story, but the acting was just so so.
  • hoganshero
    October 15, 2007
    hoganshero
    Really good movie. Depp and Ricci have a really intsense love scene. Depp tends to look at her longingly for a good 2/3s of the film. But I'll forgive..he's lovely. And Blanchett does a really flighty portrayal of a early 20th century gold-digger. All in all..great story of pers...( read more)erverance with a stellar cast..but honestly...I don't understand the title.
  • limoradalloway
    May 16, 2007
    limoradalloway
    Not even Johnny Depp could save this movie. It stunk really bad.
  • hawkledge
    August 25, 2009
    hawkledge
    Gloriously flamboyant and emotionally camp exploration of cultural assimilation. Christina Ricci is fabulously passive and unmoved by proceedings as is an equally understated Johnny Depp. Cate Blanchett chews scenery with panache, and Sacha Vierny's camerawork is exquisite.
  • graveling861
    February 22, 2009
    graveling861
    Weird and really boring but the acting was good.
  • almalimon08
    October 22, 2009
    almalimon08
    From beginning to end I was captivated!
  • caliecokitty
    September 30, 2009
    caliecokitty
    different, not sure how to tell avout it
  • vagrantcandy
    August 29, 2009
    vagrantcandy
    Once again Christina Ricci and Johny Depp have chemistry.
  • nicoleco05
    August 23, 2009
    nicoleco05
    It was weird I can't lie.
  • Phonex
    August 3, 2009
    Phonex
    A nutty fairy tale about a displaced Jewish girl who must find her place in a hostile and often surreal world. 1927, rural Russia: Little Fegele (Claudia Lander-Duke) adores her father (Oleg Yankovskiy), a cantor, and is bereft when he leaves their small town to find his fortune ...( read more)in America. Soon after, Fegele's grandmother hears rumors of an impending pogrom and tries to send the child to join her father. Instead, Fegele winds up alone in England, where her name is changed to Suzie. Taken in by a foster family, the withdrawn child scarcely speaks but communicates through her lovely singing voice. Years pass, and the adult Suzie (Christina Ricci) still burns with the desire to find her father in America, to which end she joins a traveling cabaret troupe. That takes her to Paris, where she meets flamboyant Russian showgirl Lola (Cate Blanchett), also an expatriate. The worldly Lola, who cultivates a flighty image but lives by the practical motto "Never look back; always go forward," takes Suzie under her wing, finding her a job at the opera and sharing tips for getting ahead. Lola sets her sights on the opera's self-centered Italian star, Dante (John Turturro), while Suzie falls for a Romany horse trainer named Cesar (Johnny Depp). Suzie feels a deep kinship with the perpetually homeless gypsies, but when Paris falls to the Nazis she's forced again to flee. It's astonishing to watch English filmmaker Sally Potter suggest lavish production values with impoverished means. Her WWII saga, which suggests the German occupation of Paris with little more than the amplified sound of marching feet, and the destruction of a luxury liner with an explosion in the ship's swimming pool, stands in stark contrast to the absurdly over-budgeted spectacle of PEARL HARBOR, which opened in the US on the same day.

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Critic Reviews

June 22, 2001
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

If [Potter] personally, in her 40s, can go to Argentina and become a tango dancer, then we can't complain about anything that happens to Suzie. Not that we'd want to. full review

May 26, 2001
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

Potter's cinematic vision is what makes The Man Who Cried shimmer and levitate. full review

May 24, 2001
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

Potter gets the period details right (heads up, Michael Bay), but the film itself has long since flown off the rails, miring good intentions in rank soap opera. full review

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  • wilstarmbel
    May 1, 2008
    wilstarmbel
    not everyones taste but i really enjoyed this movie. ricci,depp where really good in this movie and turturro. Worth a watch...... x
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