The Man Who Cried (2000)
Directed by Sally Potter · Cinematography by Sacha Vierny
R100 min64 frames
RomanceDramaMusicWar
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What is The Man Who Cried about?
A young refugee travels from Russia to America in search of her lost father and falls in love with a gypsy horseman.
The Man Who Cried is a 2000 historical musical drama film written and directed by Sally Potter, and starring Christina Ricci, Cate Blanchett, Johnny Depp, Harry Dean Stanton and John Turturro. The film tells the story of a young Jewish girl who, after being separated from her father in Soviet Russia, grows up in England and moves to Paris as a young adult, shortly before the beginning of World War II. It is the last film worked on by the French cinematographer Sacha Vierny.
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What does the cinematography of The Man Who Cried look like?
Across 63 sampled frames, The Man Who Cried builds its coverage from medium shots (49% of the sample), with wide compositions (25%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Sacha Vierny keeps 68% of it in soft, low-key light. 78% of the frames play at night or in the failing light of dusk. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 63% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings.
What is the color palette of The Man Who Cried?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of The Man Who Cried (2000) are #302d30, #0c0b0d, #483934, #30334c, #4b4c4f, #f6f4f2 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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