Review of The Man Who Cried (2000) by Moustapha G — 28 Mar 2007

Chronicle of the search and defense by cultural roots, acclimated in previous Paris to the German occupation, tells the history us of a Russian and Jewish girl - whose father emigrates to the United States in search of fortune that will be adopted by a British marriage that gives its nationality him. With a photo of its ancestor and a song that unites to them, will arrive at Paris to work in a operística company, with the hope to save and to travel to America. In the city of the Seine it knows a vain Italian singer and disoluto, to a Russian dancer whom it looks for to grow by his physical beauty and to a gypsy whose only virtue is to mount its beautiful white horse. Are beings without choes like her, personages who fight by the survival, each one to their way, people which they swim between infortunio and the racial intolerance. Found feelings of those who look for their place in the world, desires and low passions that come out ahead, love and treason will be the other spices that decorate this historical and personal drama.

With Sally Potter, John Turturro, It tastes Blanchett, Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci; it arrives to us, then, a film that is let see with certain taste, with initial minutes that promise more than what later it gives, and that supposes a new glance on the Jewish town and on those - like the gypsys which they have crossed the continent in search of a place in the world, without resigning to its cultural identity front to the successive harassments of a intolerante society.