The Man Who Cried

 

 

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            Plot Summary: Suzie (Christina Ricci) is a Russian Jew living in England during the World War II era. She must hide her heritage to avoid persecution while she searches for her long lost father who immigrated to America. Suzie ended up on the wrong boat when he sent for her to come to America. Suzie ends up in Paris working in an opera starring Dante Dominio (John Turturro) where she meets Cesar (Johnny Depp) who is isolated from everyone else because he is a gypsy. Suzie falls in love with Cesar and to gain his trust she tells him her secret. As the nazis march into Paris she must choose between Cesar and the search for her father.

 

Director: Sally Potter

 

            Writer: Sally Potter

 

            Cast: Johnny Depp                       (Cesar)

                        Christina Ricci                     (Suzie)

                        Cate Blanchett                     (Lola)

                        John Turturro                      (Dante Dominio)

                        Harry Dean Stanton           (Felix Perlman)

                        Oleg Yankovsky                 (Father)

 

            Rating: R

 

            Review: This is an absolutly terrific movie. The story is great, the directing is great, and the acting is great. Johnny Depp is terrific as Cesar the gypsy. I love gypsies in movies. There’s something about a gypsy that is very romantic and mysterious, and I swear to God that if Johnny Depp (or anyone else for that matter) ever touched me like he’s touching Christina Ricci in that picture I’d melt. Johnny Depp says as much when he says nothing as he does when he speaks. This is another one of those roles where Johnny Depp says very little, but reveals just as much, if not more, than other actors who have ten times more lines than he does. In fact, it seems that very little is actually spoken in this movie. There doesn’t seem to be much dialogue but the story is meaningful and well played by the actors. I absolutely love everything about this movie. It was extremely well done and worth seeing more than once.

 

            Trivia: This is Johnny Depp’s third movie with Christina Ricci and also his third with John Turturro. Christina Ricci was in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas as Lucy and in Sleepy Hollow as Katrina Van Tassel. John Turturro was in The Source as Allen Ginsberg and in Secret Window as John Shooter.