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The Man Who Cried [2000]Snagging.org In association with Amazon.co.ukOnline Shop | Property Guides | Kitchen & Home | Garden Tools | Power Tools | Consumer Electronics Get the Snagging Checklist Here! The Man Who Cried [2000] starring: Christina Ricci, Cate Blanchett, Oleg Yankovsky, Claudia Lander-Duke, Danny Scheinman directed by: Sally Potter ![: The Man Who Cried [2000]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41RRY437NAL._SL160_.jpg) List Price: £9.99 Amazon.co.uk's Price: £4.98 You Save: £5.01 (50%)Prices subject to change. Availability: In stock soon. Order now to get in line. First come, first served.
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1Audience Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over Binding: DVD EAN: 5035822013247 Format: PAL, Widescreen Label: Universal Pictures UK Languages: Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UK Number Of Discs: 1 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Universal Pictures UK Region Code: 2 Release Date: April 10, 2003 Running Time: 110 minutes Studio: Universal Pictures UK Theatrical Release Date: 2001 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: Sally Potter's The Man Who Cried, like her acclaimed Orlando before it, is an ambitious exploration of identity, richly intoxicated with the sensual possibilities of cinema. Photographed by one of Europe's greatest cinematographers, Sacha Vierny (Last Year at Marienbad, Belle du Jour, Hiroshima Mon Amour), with extravagantly beautiful costumes by Oscar-winner Lindy Hemming (Topsy-Turvy) and set in the vibrant milieu of a Paris slowly building towards World War II, visually this is European cinema at its bigger-budget best. The costumes in a Parisian can-can club are some of the most sumptuous ever created, and the sombre hues in the misty Russian village of the opening sequence haunt the screen throughout the film, yet they promise an excellence and a mystery that is never quite delivered. Potter's ambition isn't justly rewarded largely because of her strange choices of lead actors. Perhaps due to the weight of a hefty budget and the perceived box-office pull of American stars, some odd casting choices were made. To see Christina Ricci as a displaced Russian peasant, not to mention Johnny Depp as a Romanian Gypsy and John Turturro as a fascist Italian theatre director, jars to say the least. Perhaps this was part of Potter's design in a film that is once again obsessed with the splintered and shimmering surfaces of European identity (or maybe the cod accents are a mark of Potter's reputedly cheeky humour?). On the DVD: The DVD itself is disappointingly devoid of extra features, but this digital version beautifully showcases the glorious craftsmanship on offer. --Tricia Tuttle Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A beautiful and sensitive movie A beautiful and sensitive movie about a Jewish child , Faygele (Claudia Lander-Duke) , in Russia , in 1927 , whose father emigrates to the USA , intending to send for his family later. However , in the meantime , Faygele's shtetl is burned to the ground by the Communists , and most of it's inhabitants slaughtered. Faygele is spirited to England , where she is renamed Suzie , and brought up in the British middle class. As a young lady (Christina Ricci) Suzie makes her way to Paris , where she makes a career from her talent for singing and dancing. She is befriended by a fellow dancer Lola (Cate Blanchett) , and is romanced by a dark brooding gypsey horseman Cesar ( Johnny Depp) When the Nazis storm into Paris , Suzie is betrayed by the villainous Italian opera singer Dante (John Turturro) and must now decide how to deal with the danger, given her Jewish background. A wonderful exploration of how human lives are affected by upheaval. Rating: - visually stunning gemThis kind of film will either leave you feeling moved or feeling bored. I luckily was taken with this film straight away. It does narrate in quite a slow pace, but it does it with maturity and elegance. It tackles a rather tricky subject naimly the war. We first meet Ricci's character as a young girl living in Russia with her father. These scenes of rural life are particuarly visually stunning and capture the mood of the place to the full. Her life then changes when a man from the village comes back with tales of jobs and prosperity in America. Ricci's character is then left with her grandmother. Riots then fall upon Russia and the little girl is sent on to where they think is America but is in fact London. Several years later and Riccis character is desperate to find her father in America, so she joins a dance group in order to fund her way there. She ends up in France. Other characters in this part of the film are Blanchett who is exquisite as a Russian temptress and Depp as the sultry and silent gypsy. Depp once again is quite happy to be in the background of a film, yet through his pure genius in silent acting takes the film with his role.He is not only beautiful to look at he also has so much meaning and power in the way he manages to say so much with such a little vocab. Ricci too for once manages to hold her English accent for a while enough to pull the part off. This is a visual stunner with enough heart in it to make you feel for the characters particuarly Depp and Blanchett. Dont watch this film if you have a low attention span or cant sit through films that are artistically visual in their meaning. however if you enjoy the slow paced film watch this its packed with beauty and life, it also has a strong story and meaning behind it which finishes in a thought-provoking haunting way Rating:  - Thought provoking and movingI found this film both thought provoking and moving, yet on a subtle level. It is not an intensified expose of religious and social persecution, in comparison to the harsh realities expressed by so many of such genre. However this film's success lies in its ability to connect the audience with a variety of characters, thus allowing identification with the individuals concerned and the tribulations which they encounter. Although key elements of social and political upheaval construct the fundamental theme throughout, a greater emphasis is placed upon the personal quest of the protagonist (Fegele), played by Christina Ricci. This film offers a sophisticated account which highlights the struggle to maintain and defend one's true identity, from a variety of cultural perspectives. Rating:  - BORINGThis film has been reviewed extremely highly by others so I was sorely disappointed when I set through 50 excruciating minutes of weirdness. I gave up watching after that as i couldn't care less about the fate of any of the characters. Please don't waste your time watching this film, I wish I hadn't. Rating: - A despicable traitor and a narrow escapeThe 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  Try searching the Internet for "The Man Who Cried [2000]" or Ebay for "The Man Who Cried [2000]". You might also be interested in the following great products:
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