The Man Who Cried (2000)

Réalisateur:

Sally Potter

Scénariste:

Sally Potter (written by)

Release Date:

22 septembre 2000 (Italy)

Genre:

Drame

Plot:

A young refugee traveling from Russia to America in search of her lost father falls for a gypsy horseman.

Plot Keywords:

Sex | Ship Sinking | Ship | Train | Singer

Awards:

3 wins & 2 nominations

Avis des utilisateurs:

Beautiful film about risk, change and difference

Ensemble

Christina Ricci	...	Suzie
Oleg Yankovsky	...	Father
Claudia Lander-Duke	...	Young Suzie
Danny Scheinman	...	Man in Suit
Anna Tzelniker	...	Mother of Man in Suit
Barry Davis	...	Man in Village
Thom Osborn	...	Man in Village
Frank Chersky	...	Man in Village
Daniel Hart	...	Man in Village
Peter Majer	...	Man in Village
Hana Maria Pravda	...	Grandmother
Ayala Meir	...	Child
Abraham Hassan	...	Child
Lloyd Martin	...	Child
Uri Meir	...	Child

Autre(s) titre(s) :

The man who cried - Les larmes d'un homme (France)
Homme qui pleurait, L' (Canada: French title) [fr]

MPAA:

Rated R for sexuality.

Durée:

100 min | Italy:97 min (Venice Film Festival)

Pays:

UK | France

Langue:

Anglais | Yiddish | Russe | Français | Italien | Romany | Roumain

Couleur:

Noir et Blanc | Couleur (Duboicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Son:

SDDS | DTS | Dolby Digital

Classification:

USA:R (certificate #37649) | South Korea:15 | Finland:K-11 | Iceland:12 | Argentina:13 | Canada:14A (video rating) | France:U | Germany:12 (w) | Hong Kong:IIB | Portugal:M/12 | Spain:T | Sweden:11 | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | UK:12 | Australia:M

Emplacements De Pelliculage:

Bourne Woods, Farnham, Surrey, England, UK

Company:

Canal+

Anecdotes:

Johnny Depp asked for golden teeth to be put into his mouth to give more realism to his character.

Goofs:

Anachronisms: In the scene where Suzie is following Cesare and his friends on her bike, they go through a passage where you can see the Eiffel Tower in the background and it is lit up. However, the lights were not added to the Tower until 1986.

Guillemet:

Lola: It's dangerous to love.

Connexions De Film:

References Pas de deux (1968)

Soundtrack:

Dido's Lament

Beautiful film about risk, change and difference

The only reason I did not rate this film a "10" was that the Christina Ricci character (Feygele/Suzie), who is supposed to be a superb singer in the era before microphones, was not dubbed by someone who can actually sing. (Ricci, gifted actress that she is, can't, and to a musician, that's a problem). Other than that, I loved this movie. Ricci and Depp, as impossible lovers who just happen to be members of the two peoples most persecuted by the Nazis (a Jew and a Gypsy), are both perfection in their roles. John Tuturro and Cate Blanchett, as (respectively) an Alpha-male Italian tenor enamored of Mussolini, and Suzie's fellow dancer/confidante seduced by the tenor and his Fascist tendencies, are such compelling characters that they almost needed their own separate movie. The cinematography is beautiful throughout, and the sense of history, of the sweep of time, is wonderfully evoked. Last but not least, the score of the film memorably weaves together an old Yiddish lullaby with "Je crois entendre encore," the great tenor aria from Bizet's "Pearl Fishers." Both melodies share the same rhythmic and harmonic skeleton, and the film score reveals and celebrates it. A wonderful musical reflection on the theme of the film in general. Wait until the end of the movie to see what I mean -- the music explains it all.