The Man Who Cried R

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  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 40 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: January 2, 2002
  • Originally Released: 2001
  • Label: Universal Studios

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User Ratings: 25,758
It's as though we're being dared not to take the movie seriously, although nothing but the pre-Holocaust setting compels you to do so.
Toronto Star
Jul 13, 2001
Rating: C- -- A grand looking film always giving one hope it will come up with something sweeping to say... Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Feb 25, 2002
Rating: 3/4 -- 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
Chicago Sun-Times
Jun 22, 2001
Rating: C -- There's only one performer in the movie who looks completely at ease with what he's doing: the horse. Full Review
Entertainment Weekly
Jun 28, 2001
Ricci ... can't hold audience interest for more than about five minutes, especially when she's stuck with material as superficial and slow-moving as this period drama. Full Review
Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
Aug 17, 2001
A poetic look at transience, betrayal, loss and doom.
Chicago Tribune
Jun 21, 2001
Rating: 1/4 -- The Man Who Cried hits all the wrong notes right from the get-go and never relents. Full Review
Reel Film Reviews
Mar 30, 2003

Product Description:

Writer/Director Sally Potter's ambitious historic romance THE MAN WHO CRIED is an epic war drama laced with moral parable and bolstered by lush sets and costumes. The story begins familiarly enough--a young Russian Jewish girl is displaced just before World War II and separated from her family--but Potter has woven around the character of Suzie (Christina Ricci) a labyrinth of color, dance, ethnic music, and culture that transcends a typical or cliched war-time drama. By the use of an eclectic, but brilliant, cast, the complex set of choices made by the characters--all outsiders on some level--help to convey the desperation and strength in each of their situations. In particular, there is Suzie, who was raised in a proper English household after fleeing her homeland. Withdrawn, silently tormented, she longs to find her father (Oleg Yankovsky) who fled to America to find a better life for their family. Poetically, Suzie finds a singing voice to express who she is, traveling to Paris where she becomes part of the Moulin Rouge set. It is here--amidst the glamour and impending doom of Paris in the 1930s--that she meets Lola (an almost unrecognizable Cate Blanchett), a fascinating, sophistocated woman who guides Suzie but loses her own identity in a relationship with a rich singer (John Turturro). Suzie also finds love in the arms of the gypsy Cesar (Johnny Depp), but when the Nazis invade the city, everything must change. In this elegant and moving film, Potter has turned the Paris of today into the Paris of the 1930s, staging many incredible scenes, one in which the Place de la Concorde is actually completely emptied of cars and people.

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