Depp is always a pleasure to watch, but even he can't save this film. Story holes abound, and the title is meaningless. Two men cry in this film -- so what? It's primarily about two women. Ricci sleepwalks through the film mostly devoid of expression, plus she can neither sing nor dance. Blanchet chews enough scenery for both of them as the morally ambiguous Lola. Several scenes were to dark to be sure what was happening. The scenery is good, the costumes are appropriate, and the score is quite good. The only real standout in the cast is the little girl who plays Suzie as a child. Save yourself the 90+ minutes. If you're a Depp fan there at dozens of better films from which to choose.

I cry at the end of the movie. But I think the movie is not well done. Director can set a better way to tell story and show the events than the way he did. I think it is not worth to see this movie. Since the events that happen are not have a regular pattern. Director wants to make a musical movie but he make a bad one.The only reason that I see this movie is their actors. If Cate Blanchett and Johnny Depp do not play I won't see it. I can not understand it is about a girl who want to find her father or about a life of lonely girl. Do you understand why they called this as "The Man Who Cried"? Also it has a music too. Characters in this movie are not eager to speak. If anyone do not see this movie I recommend not to think about it!!

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!

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.