The Man Who Cried (2000)

Recommended

UK/France

Feature Film

Writer/Director: Sally Potter

Cinematography: Sacha Vierny

Composer: Osvaldo Golijov

Cast: Christina Ricci, Johnny Depp, Cate Blanchett, John Turturro, Oleg Yankovskiy, Harry Dean Stanton, Miriam Karlin, Claudia Lander-Duke

Ricci’s beautifully subtle and nuanced performance is the high spot of Potter’s simultaneously unnerving and intoxicating, dream-like period film, which follows a young girl’s music filled journey from the Russian countryside of 1927 to the America of the early ‘40s via pre-war England and war torn Paris, taking in such delights as anti-Semitism, fascism, and gypophobia. Iain.Stott