Cate Blanchett: 5 Awesome Performances And 5 That Sucked

3. Lola €“ The Man Who Cried (2000)

If you've never heard of this Anglo-French historical drama, well, good for you. But rest assured it is terrible and an early sign of Johnny Depp's slow descent into career apathy. Which is kind of a shame, because director Sally Potter had previously managed to bash Virginia Woolf's book Orlando into a serviceable screenplay with Tilda Swinton in a decade before. But that was then, and this is a slightly more recent then, and instead of adapting a work of literature by one of history's greatest writers Potter penned her own screenplay. It did not go down well. The Man Who Cried is a sort of sweeping drama where a young Jewish girl is seperated from her father in Russia, is raised in England, and then moves to Paris for the outbreak of World War II. It's a series of unfortunate events, with too many coincidences to take seriously and not enough levity to make the drama really work. Blanchett plays Lola, an older Russian woman that the young woman (Christina Ricci) lives with for a bit. That's about as much character development as she gets. Just boring and flat.