The Man Who Cried
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Movie Reviews of The Man Who Cried
Movie Review: Good Work from Christina Ricci
Summary: 4 Stars
Christina Ricci did an outstanding job in this film. I would have liked to see a better transition to the relationship with Caeser, and to finding her father. Movie Review: Hope can survive fate no matter what
Summary: 5 Stars
The film tries to bring together four different types of refugees. Southern Italians who migrated to Northern Italy and became mussolinians. Russian female dancers who fled away from the Bolshevik revolution and are ready to use their bodies to get acquainted with rich people, no matter what. Russian Jews, representing all Jews, running away from persecution, Russian or German, communist or nazi. Gypsies who are at home nowhere and are always shuddering in front of some danger but always fighting with their one and only family, for their one and only family, for survival. And the film covers about 15 years of European history starting in 1927. It is a very sad film with negative events and persecution adding up, year after year to a total deculturization that is imposed onto all those who do not fit - the very word used by the Welsh teacher who will teach Fegele-Suzy how to sing and who was punished for speaking Welsh in school - in the normalized society in which they live. And yet, deep in the deepest depth of one's soul there is an island or a cavern where one is what one has always been and will always be. It is called resilience and the film is a marvelous example of such resilience. One can always survive in one's mind if one believes in the power of human memory: never forget the past, just cultivate it in your mind's eye and it will come back one day. The film is also a powerful lesson of love. Love is the power to convince the one you love to run away from danger and live, though you have to stay behind and fight. And the man who loves Fegele-Suzy that much can cry all night when she sleeps in their last night together and pretend he is asleep when she is ready to go. And yet the film never gets sentimentalese. It remains extremely pure, perfect and does not waste time and energy on self-pity or pathetic schmaltzy compassion.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University of Paris Dauphine & University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne
Movie Review: Excellent yet realistically frightening.
Summary: 5 Stars
This story of a Jewish woman in search of her father (separated from him as a child in 1927 Russia), in a time when the world was on the verge of war, is heartbreaking and very real. It is low key but I was riveted. You can feel the underlying tension of knowing, and the subtle buildup of the inevitable invasion of Paris. It chilled me to the bone in one part to hear the sounds of the Germans marching into the city. The movie, considered a sleeper, shows the frightening reality of what it was like to be there at that time in our history and potentially in danger if you were Jewish, a gypsy, homosexual, etc. The acting was superb. John Turturro (Dante), brilliantly plays an Italian arrogant, selfish, self-centered, manipulative opera singer who tries with no success to ingratiate himself romantically into Suzie's life (Christina Ricci, the heroine of the film). Her performance was also excellent. The look on her face throughout the film shows her haunted, yet with a quiet strength in her determination to eventually reconnect with her father. Her rejection of Dante causes her friend and Dante's ex-lover Lola (played brilliantly by Cate Blanchett who's Russian accent was excellent) to leave Paris and go to America because her life was in danger. In the interim Suzie has fallen for Cesar, a gypsy horseman played by Johnny Depp, yet another excellent performance. Some people are comparing this gypsy role with the one he played in Chocolat. There is no similarity except for him being softspoken and unassuming. Definitely not a "character reprisal". Not Depp's style. The only character he's reprising is his pirate, Jack Sparrow which by now the whole world is aware of.
The only thing I didn't like about this movie was the ending. The second it ended, it was like I was thrown into shock. Not one for abrupt endings unless the film warrants it. This one did not. But don't let it stop you from seeing this movie. Really holds your attention. I'm so glad I bought it.
Movie Review: An amalgam of World War II types
Summary: 3 Stars
Who is "The Man Who Cried" and why did he cry? These are the questions you may ask yourself after watching this movie, which ties together loose ends from "The Pianist", "Cabaret" and a lot of other flicks about World War II emigrees.
Rarely does a film with this good a cast -- including Christina Ricci, Cate Blanchett, a badly miscat John Turturro and Johnny Depp -- come off with less vigor and more questions in the storyline. For instance, what was the father's role in this whole thing and why was the father the focal point at the end?
Briefly stated, the movie is about a Russian Jew separated from her family before the war (Ricci) who is raised in England to become a singer and dancer, befriends a woman in a similiar situation (Blanchett) who together perform in Paris during the time of German occupation in 1940, falls for a striking Magyar (Depp), is announced to the Germans as a Jew by an opera singer (Turturro), and somehow later finds her father to be reunited with her family.
I don't quibble with those that found this film artistic and beautifully produced. However, those attributes do not make a great movie and this one surely lacks greatness. It is an enjoyable foray for a couple hours on a weekend.
Movie Review: Great movie -- wonderful soundtrack
Summary: 4 Stars
Great storyline. The music by Osvaldo Golijov underwrites the drama of the movie. John Turturro was amazing as one of the lead characters -- the opera singer -- as this is most different from most roles he has played. Johnny Depp was mysterious, deep, distanced but acknowledges the attraction that Christina Ricci's character has for him. Cate Blanchett's character richly unfolds as the movie progresses. Cinematography was very colorful and sets the movie just "right".