A remarkably gutsy odyssey.
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08/10/07
Transylvania (2006)
69 %
Reviews Counted: 16 Fresh: 11 Rotten:5 Average Rating: 5.5/10
Rated: 15
Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins
Theatrical Release: 10-08-2007
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Asia Argento, Amira Casar, Birol Unel
Director: Tony Gatlif
Reviews
1 - 16 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
The whole is lively and colourful but those who know Gatlif 's work may feel they've seen it all before. If you haven't, you may be more impressed.
08/10/07
Gatlif seems literally to make it up as he goes along, a modus operandi that works fine in the impromptu musical interludes but fails utterly in terms of drama.
08/10/07
Gatlif is thrilled by the apparently inexhaustible energy of Romany music; a little of it goes quite a long way. But it's beautifully shot.
08/10/07
Top Critic
The real love affair is not between Zingarina and Tchangalo; it’s between Zingarina and the country where she has her child.
08/10/07
Top Critic
Raw, ragged, rambling and romantic - if the sound of a furious violin drifting down the alley quickens your pulse, you may find Gatlif's gypsy drama a seductive and potent experience.
08/10/07
Top Critic
Gatlif's vision of life on the open road is highly (sometimes overly) romantic, peppered with lively music and striking landscapes: it's the feeding of the senses that takes priority over plotting or polish in Transylvania.
08/10/07
Top Critic
French- Algerian director Tony Gatlif shows great skill in capturing local colour and texture, sourcing a rogues’ gallery of memorable images from the fog-shrouded environs. He’s less successful at giving any direction or meaning to his central pairing’s
08/10/07
Top Critic
An insidiously memorable visual experience, even if it offers only dazzling snapshots of contemporary life in the region which gives it its title.
08/09/07
Top Critic
Perhaps Tony Gatlif's oddest film to date, it's a kind of road trip with so few borders that it's easy to get lost along the way. The plot is as obtuse as its mix of languages
01/28/08
A love story with star actors and a bigger budget heightens the mainstream appeal of Tony Gatlif's ethnic road musical.
10/18/06
Top Critic
Seemingly semi-improvised dialogue is kept mostly to a minimum, which is just as well because some of it's awful.
05/30/06
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