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Features: DVD, Dolby, Digital Audio, Dolby Digital (5.1), Dolby Surround Sound
Today's most dazzling stars soar in this alluring tale of passion, intrigue and betrayal. Set against a romantic Parisian backdrop, the lives of four strangers--an innocent young woman with a dangerous secret (Christina Ricci), a seductive cabaret dancer (Cate Blanchett), a mysterious stranger (Johnny Depp) and an unscrupulous operatic tenor (John Turturro)-collide on one fateful evening when secrecy is a matter of survival. Sally Potter, the director of such diverse and highly-acclaimed films as Orlando, The Tango Lesso and The Gold Diggers, is the visionary behind The Man Who Cried, a tale of love and loss seen through the eyes of a young woman who bears witness to the devastation wreaked on men during war. The result is an extraordinary film which "hits the heart in the right place," according to the Evening Standard and about which Interview Magazine proclaims "Potter takes graceful steps with this melancholy valentine to wartime love."
"Two thumbs up!" Ebert & Roeper And The Movies
"...a good story... an excellent cast." Louis B. Parks, Houston Chronicle
"A breathtaking new film!" Jeffrey Anderson, San Francisco Examiner
Editor's Note
Writer/Director Sally Potter's ambitious historic romance THE MAN WHO CRIED is an epic war drama laced with moral parable and bolstered by lush sets and costumes. The story begins familiarly enough--a young Russian Jewish girl is displaced just before World War II and separated from her family--but Potter has woven around the character of Suzie (Christina Ricci) a labyrinth of color, dance, ethnic music, and culture that transcends a typical or cliched war-time drama. By the use of an eclectic, but brilliant, cast, the complex set of choices made by the characters--all outsiders on some level--help to convey the desperation and strength in each of their situations. In particular, there is Suzie, who was raised in a proper English household after fleeing her homeland. Withdrawn, silently tormented, she longs to find her father (Oleg Yankovsky) who fled to America to find a better life for their family. Poetically, Suzie finds a singing voice to express who she is, traveling to Paris where she becomes part of the Moulin Rouge set. It is here--amidst the glamour and impending doom of Paris in the 1930s--that she meets Lola (an almost unrecognizable Cate Blanchett), a fascinating, sophistocated woman who guides Suzie but loses her own identity in a relationship with a rich singer (John Turturro). Suzie also finds love in the arms of the gypsy Cesar (Johnny Depp), but when the Nazis invade the city, everything must change. In this elegant and moving film, Potter has turned the Paris of today into the Paris of the 1930s, staging many incredible scenes, one in which the Place de la Concorde is actually completely emptied of cars and people.
| Features | Scene Selection | | Theatrical Trailer | | Production Notes | | Audio: English & French 5.1 Surround | | Subtitles: English | | Interactive Menus |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Universal |
| Release Date: 9/2/2003 |
| Running Time: 100 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2001 | | Catalog ID: 21475 | | UPC: 00025192147524 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 4:3 |
| Cast & Crew
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| | Professional Reviews | Movieline's Hollywood Life
"...Cate Blanchett has great fun with her outlandish role..." 06/01/2001 p.39New York Times
"...A series of sumptuous mounted tableaus....The film is beautifully recorded and scored..." 05/25/2001 p.E14 USA Today
"...Intriguing....Cate Blanchett is flamboyantly believable....[The] cinematography is exquisite..." 05/25/2001 p.6E Uncut
"A thinking person's soap, a pocket-size ENGLISH PATIENT..." 08/01/2001 p.144 |
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