
In this historical drama with music, a gifted singer (Oleg Yankovsky) from a Jewish village in Russia travels to the United States in 1927, leaving behind his young daughter Fegele (Claudia Lander-Duke). Father has promised his family that he'll send for Fegele as soon as he can, but authorities make life hard for the Jewish population, and Fegele is forced to flee with relatives to England. Fegele is adopted by a British family, which renames her Suzie and raises her with li... (Full plot summary below)
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In this historical drama with music, a gifted singer (Oleg Yankovsky) from a Jewish village in Russia travels to the United States in 1927, leaving behind his young daughter Fegele (Claudia Lander-Duke). Father has promised his family that he'll send for Fegele as soon as he can, but authorities make life hard for the Jewish population, and Fegele is forced to flee with relatives to England. Fegele is adopted by a British family, which renames her Suzie and raises her with little acknowledgment of her ethnic heritage. As she grows to adulthood, Suzie (Christina Ricci) becomes a gifted vocalist and gets a job singing in a nigh club revue in Paris. Before she leaves England, her adopted family presents Suzie with a picture of her father, still believed to be living in America, and she decides she will go to the United States some day and find him. In Paris, Suzie makes friends with Lola (Cate Blanchett), a Russian showgirl in the market for a rich husband. Lola becomes involved with opera star Dante Dominio (John Turturro), and soon both Lola and Suzie are extras in Dominio's company, managed by Felix Perlman (Harry Dean Stanton). As Lola takes up with Dante, Suzie falls for Cesar (Johnny Depp), a poor but handsome gypsy horse trainer. Suzie soon becomes involved with the handsome Cesar, but their happiness proves to be short-lived when the Nazi war machine begins to roll through France.
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| Hot ButtonDavid PolandPotter, unlike most, doesn't batter you with what she wants you to feel. As the lyrics of a song, this film is poetry. I suspect it will linger with me long after its details would normally fade. Beautiful. |
| Matinee MagazineChuck RudolphAlways interesting in a morbid and curious sort of way. |
| OregonianBarry JohnsonIt all won't be enough to convince Potter's critics, but the lush images that she assembles have a fascination. |
| Boxoffice MagazineChris WiegandFar from the film that you would expect it to be considering the talent involved. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThis is an amazingly ambitious movie, not so much because of the time and space it covers (a lot), but because Potter trusts us to follow her heroine through one damn thing after another. |
| Empire MagazineClark CollisAn achingly beautiful and quite touching movie. |
| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleIt feels both big and little, concentrating as it does on the small movements in people's lives and the huge tides of history. |
| Philadelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyA curious but intriguing movie that leaves you bemused and more than a little confused. |
| Film.comTom KeoghWhile we may like what we see, it's impossible to comprehend what much of it means or why we should care. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzA grand looking film always giving one hope it will come up with something sweeping to say... |