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I prefer to think of this movie as The Critic Who Cried.
Desson Thomson, Washington Post
The Man Who Cried
2000 · 1h 36m · R
Drama, Music, Romance, War
Directed by
Sally Potter
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The Man Who Cried
Overview
A young refugee travels from Russia to America in search of her lost father and falls in love with a gypsy horseman.
Director and cast
- Sally Potter Director
- Christina Ricci as Suzie
- Johnny Depp as Cesar
- Cate Blanchett as Lola
- John Turturro as Dante Dominio
- Harry Dean Stanton as Felix Perlman
- Oleg Yankovsky as Father
- Don Fellows as Joe
- Claudia Lander-Duke as Young Suzie
- Danny Scheinmann as Man in Suit
- Anna Tzelniker as Mother of Man in Suit
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
35%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Potter eschews drama for posing, politics for postulating, and provides enough symbolic broad strokes to gag a magic realist.
Kevin Courrier, Globe and Mail
Rotten
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.
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star
Rotten
There's only one performer in the movie who looks completely at ease with what he's doing: the horse.
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
Fresh
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.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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