"Transylvania" by Tony Gatlif, 2006, is the first film I saw by a director developing a direction of gypsy cinema. This is a road movie about a girl Zingarina, who rushed to look for her lover, the gypsy musician Milan, who, she believed, was deported from France, where he entered illegally. But as it turned out, she was wrong about
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"Transylvania" by Tony Gatlif, 2006, is the first film I saw by a director developing a direction of gypsy cinema. This is a road movie about a girl Zingarina, who rushed to look for her lover, the gypsy musician Milan, who, she believed, was deported from France, where he entered illegally. But as it turned out, she was wrong about him - he just dumped her. Her love has the character of an obsession, so after Milan pushed her away, her mind became slightly disturbed, she behaves not very adequately and eventually goes where her eyes look, despite her pregnancy, instead of returning with her loving friend back to France. Eventually, accidentally on the road, she meets Changalo, whom she had previously encountered, and after her next bout of desperate madness, he picks her up finally, then they travel together - two lost and restless human souls. Gradually there is an attachment between them, eventually a child is born. The film is almost absolutely not tied to real time, all those roads and rural villages in which Changalo buys gold, silver and all sorts of stuff, and remained somewhere in the past. The action does not seem very realistic, there is a share of mysticism, its gypsy version, everything is largely conditional, although some realities are indicated. A lot of gypsy music, written by the director himself, at the end, when the hero, obviously, get to Transcarpathia, sounds and “Chervona Ruta”. For me, the line of the main character in the performance of Asia Argento seemed a little too tearful, Changalo seemed more interesting performed by one of the favorite actors of Fatih Akin - Birol Junel. The film is certainly interesting.
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