Suzie (Christina Ricci) is a Russian Jew whose village was burnt down. Her father had emigrated to America. Her mother was killed, and somehow she managed to escape to Britain as a child. As an adult, she tries to go to America to search for her father. But all she could do was go to Paris as a singer and dancer on the eve of WWII.
Writer/Director Sally Potter has grand ambitions for this movie. Christina Ricci is lovely as a pensive girl searching for her past. Johnny Depp is almost a mute in this. Cate Blanchett and John Turturro are both trying out distracting accents. The scale of this movie (both emotional and physical) just never matched its ambitions. And the ending just didn't have the required tension or pace. Like the rest of the movie, it just couldn't achieve the wished-for climax.
Writer/Director Sally Potter has grand ambitions for this movie. Christina Ricci is lovely as a pensive girl searching for her past. Johnny Depp is almost a mute in this. Cate Blanchett and John Turturro are both trying out distracting accents. The scale of this movie (both emotional and physical) just never matched its ambitions. And the ending just didn't have the required tension or pace. Like the rest of the movie, it just couldn't achieve the wished-for climax.