PodBill Just what I expected

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Seraherrera The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

namashi_1 Sally Potter's 'The Man Who Cried' is one of those disappointments, that hurt, dishearten & leave you exhausted.The film tells the story of a young Jewish girl who after being separated from her father in Soviet Russia, grows up in England. As a young adult, she moves to Paris (shortly before the beginning of World War II), and then flees to the United States when the Nazis move into the French capital. The idea, the backdrop, the characters look real in every frame. But the film doesn't hold, it loses energy after a point, in fact, the climax is a yawn.Potter, the director films,'The Man Who Cried' really well. But Potter the writer, pulls the efforts down. The writing is a mess. One can't grasp it's genre! Is it a musical, or is it a love story. Sorry, this doesn't work on its advantage. This was cinematographer Sacha Vierny last film, his work is memorable.Coming to acting, Christina Ricci not only looks maddening but also delivers a fantastic performance. She is the sole saving grace of this venture. Cate Blanchett is passable, while John Turturro seems in be in character throughout. Harry Dean Stanton is wasted. Johnny Depp sleepwalks. Claudia Lander-Duke, playing ricci as a kid, is good.'The Man Who Cried' is a colossal disappointment. Period!

Juanita The Man Who Cried is a good movie, not great but definitely good and worth seeing. The Man Who Cried is about a young Jewish girl named Suzie (played by Christina Ricci who I am a fan of) during World War II, she basically gets separated from her father and then becomes a dancer in England. Then she starts working in a theatre, where she meets Lola (Cate Blanchett), a Russian lady who becomes her roommate and close friend. Suzie then falls in love with Cesar (awesome actor Johnny Depp). The film basically follows their relationship as well as her relationship with Lola, I am surprised more people have not seen this movie based on all the star power in it, Ricci and Depp are both awesome and Blanchett is also good as usual, I would recommend that anyone see this movie but children probably should only see it with their parents permission.

hoarnb This film wasted the talents of several terrific actors; most notably, John Turtorro, Cate Blanchette, Johnny Depp and Harry Dean Stanton. Christina Ricci was serviceable, but was probably miscast. The direction/editing I found very choppy which made the film difficult to follow as it marred the pacing. It appears that the budgeting did not take into account spending adequate money or time on the editing portion of the film. I also felt that the plot was erratic and never fully developed characters as it should have. Cate Blanchette as Lola turned in her typical great acting with a flawless Russian accent, but it was difficult to know where she fit into the larger plot at times. Turturro's character was sort of a caricature of an Opera Diva and he was laughable at times especially when protesting being upstaged by horses. Overall the film was visually well done but fell flat in substance.

LouE15 Sally Potter is a director in love with beauty, and at her best she makes devotees of her viewers. She'll be remembered for "Orlando", starring the marvellous Tilda Swinton – but still, "The Man Who Cried" has moments of beauty and flashes of brilliance that make it well worth a look. It's messy, patchy, but has intense visual presence, and some memorable scenes.The casting shows clout for an art-house director – Christina Ricci, Cate Blanchett, Johnny Depp, John Turturro, and so on. But greatest praise goes to Oleg Yankovsky as Ricci's father, and the luminous Claudia Lander-Duke, playing his daughter as a child, cast adrift in the world, yet with a stately inscrutability quite beyond her years.The visual tone is sumptuous, well matched by music which doesn't simply exist outside of the film, but is woven into its very texture. Potter is on surest ground in the worlds of music, dance, theatre, with vivid imagery and impressive tableaux. Her dialogue: not so great. Thankfully Ricci's Susie is more likely to sing than to talk: she is our ears and eyes in a journey through an unsafe, lonely world of the 30s and 40s, and her remarkable face speaks eloquently of sadness and ennui, loss and damage. Depp reprises his now patented gypsy/pirate/outcast role, sidelined as a character, but adding much needed sex appeal. He becomes just another adventure for Susie, emerging and receding from the gloom in a slow dance - but elegant and handsome, like the film. I'll not forget the scenes of a man dancing in a Parisian café; or Ricci singing, dirge-like, on a doomed liner. I'd like to forget Depp at the climax of his romantic brush with Ricci, riding pointless circles around her on a white horse in slow motion, like something out of a 1980s Kate Bush video.Not one of the greats; but with glimpses of something altogether better. Still, I'd rather see an odd, flawed gem, than a ploddingly efficient, unoriginal work, showing little imagination or passion.