The star’s 2000 return engagement was for British director Sally Potter’s ‘The Man Who Cried.’
. In the film, set mostly in Paris on the eve of World War II, Christina Ricci played a dislocated Russian Jew who joins a singing and dancing troupe, where she is befriended by a Russian dancer and also meets up with a horse handler and an Italian singer . The film failed to win any prizes, but Blanchett emerged with good notices.
’s Mark Adams noted that the actress “has such a great time playing the classic blond vamp — wearing figure-hugging gowns and delivering the choicest of lines in the thickest of Russian accents — that her performance tends to dominate, overshadowing that of Christina Ricci, whose character is actuallyBlanchett will be in the spotlight again this year as the star of Todd Field’s third feature, Read More...
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