man this move was bad and slow . i was every disappointed.acting was good but the story was bad.i had high hopes for this movie.no wonder it took me 12 years to watch it. sad panda......it could have been grate....but it was not the only good thing about this movie was Depp and Christina Ricci it was pretty to look at but i was bored out of my mind...and i love history type movies the ending was lame to i hate when movie's end leaving you wonder so much all that time watching the characters boring life's unfold to have no real development and no real purpose to the movie at all there was nothing i learned or gained ....lame

Dreamy camera work, and a spirited performance by a luscious cast, aren't quite enough to save this confused and almost incoherent wartime melodrama about a romantic Jewish showgirl finding love and danger in Nazi occupied Paris.Here is a fascinating example of how casting people can overlook the most basic physical facts about the actors. Christina Ricci and Cate Blanchett are both stunningly beautiful and breathtakingly gifted. But if you check your IMDb stats, you'll notice that Cate Blanchett is more than ten years older than Christina, and a good six inches taller.What does this mean? Well, it means that when you see them together, Cate is obviously the one you'd pick as the big sister, the wise and protective mother figure. She towers over Christina like C3P0 standing next to R2D2. But in the story, Cate's character Lola is supposed to be a silly, empty-headed floozy while Christina's character Suzie is an intense, passionate, deeply determined young heroine. Neither actress is right in terms of age or appearance. Cate is too tall, too noble, too elegant and aristocratic a physical presence to be cast as a trashy, comically inept gold digger. And Christina Ricci is too tiny, too fresh-faced, and too physically undeveloped to be Cate's equal.At the same time, film maker Sally Potter seems absolutely indifferent to the realism of the story, and the storytelling problems of pace, suspense, tension and credibility. While little Suzie drifts dreamily into an almost mystical affair with a hunky Gypsy, (Johnny Depp) the needy and greedy Lola clumsily ropes in a rich but comically cruel and stupid opera star. (John Turturro, the only major character who's perfectly cast in type and ability.) Problem is, Suzie's dreamy affair doesn't really seem that heroic. She doesn't help her Gypsy friends escape the Nazis. She doesn't even help the nice Jewish lady who lives downstairs. All she does is moon around looking serious and dreamy. She hates the anti-Semitism of the cowardly opera singer, but she doesn't really do anything to counter it. She doesn't even warn Lola not to marry the guy, or tell her she could find lots of better men.The whole story would have worked much, much better if Cate Blanchett and Christina Ricci had been cast better according to size, age, looks and type. Cate should have been the rich, self-assured, and aristocratic wife of a Vichy French banker or politician. She hears Chrstina sing and is captivated by her waif-like looks and pure, child like voice. The two become friends, almost like sisters, but then Cate, who's good at heart but rather bored with her much older husband, starts up an affair with that stunning Gypsy lad. For her he's just a fun fling, but young Christina falls for him on a deeper level, wanting to help him save his people from the Nazis. When spoiled Cate finds out her little sister has stolen her man, she flies into a horrible jealous rage and tells the Nazis everything -- but at the last minute she comes to the rescue and dies nobly, allowing Christina and her Gypsy to escape to America on the last boat out of Marseilles.Now THAT'S a movie!

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.

I chose this movie to watch it together with my girlfriend as I expected some romantic and not fully ridiculous and at least half way sophisticated movie. However - it turned out to be one of the worst movies I 've ever seen.I really cannot understand how anyone can seriously rate this movie with anything more than a 1 or maybe a 2 for Johnny Depp fans (which I am!) The pictures and the style of the movie is quite good. However there is no plot and no character development in it at all. You will feel no sympathy for even one of the characters. It feels like a number of pointless scenes arranged an extraneous way. Every time you start to think about just stop watching the movie there starts a scene with some singing which makes you think that afterwards there really has something to happen - but then it just doesn't.I really ask myself what the aim of this movie is. There are no big feelings in it. I thought it might get more exciting when the Nazis take over France but it isn't as there was anything to happen afterward - luckily the movie is almost over yet.So one good thing is, that this movie reminds you of how bad a movie actually can be done and what a lucky bastard you are considering you never have to watch it again!