Tony Gatleaf's "Strange Stranger" (Crazy Stranger) / Gadjo dilo, 1997. His films are likely not to be liked by everyone, as they develop a very specific gypsy theme, but I am interested in them, I have always been interested in ethnography.
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Tony Gatleaf's "Strange Stranger" (Crazy Stranger) / Gadjo dilo, 1997. His films are likely not to be liked by everyone, as they develop a very specific gypsy theme, but I am interested in them, I have always been interested in ethnography. Got spoilers! —----------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------- Young Frenchman Stefan (Romain Duris) comes to some remote Romanian wilderness in the hope of finding the gypsy singer Nora Luca, whose song is constantly, up to his last breath, listened to his father. He was also a kind of person – all his life wandered around the world and recorded music. So the tape with the recording of this song was inherited from him, Stefan also likes it and he goes in search of the singer. But life isn't easy. One day, he is picked up by a gypsy Isidore, who suffers from the arrest of his son Adriani and gets drunk. Hearing a couple of gypsy words from Stefan’s mouth, he almost forced him to drink, and eventually brought him home. This is a poor gypsy village, where at first Stefan is met very hostilely, but Isidore defends him in every possible way, and Stefan himself by his peaceful behavior finally wins the inhabitants to his side, although they, especially children, continue to mock him slightly, forcing him to repeat any obscenities under the guise of learning the gypsy language. In the process, it turns out that the local Romanian residents are also hostile to the Roma, and those to them, but so far somehow coexist, living next door. And now for several months Stefan has been living in this village, traveling with local musicians who are invited to all sorts of parties, recording their music, even with a local girl Sabina, who knows a few words in French, because she lived with her ex-husband in Belgium, but at first was very hostile to him, they have a mutual sympathy that grows into love. But it ends very badly. The son of Isidore returns from prison, immediately committing an irreparable act, for which not only he, but the whole village is paid. In the end, we see Stefan leaving with Sabina, who destroys all the tapes with the music he recorded there and literally burys them by the road. Sabine, seeing this, only smiles. They're starting a new life. I liked the film, Romain Duris is very good in this role, the film is replete with gypsy music.
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