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Tributes and Retrospectives - Tony Gatlif
Stéphane (Romain Duris), a young Parisian, goes to Romania to search for Nora Luca, a Roma singer harshly criticized by Roma activists for allegedly denigrating Roma's image that his father listened to incessantly in the last days of her life. His search takes him to a gypsy village where he befriends Izidor (Izidor Serban) and witnesses the pains and joys of the Romani experience.
Far from romanticizing Roma communities, Tony Gatlif continues in The Crazy Stranger with the portrait of minorities excluded from cinema's dominant representation. Therefore, the Roma community is shown in all its vitality, passion, and talent, but also in its tendency towards inebriation, crime and violence, a result of the segregation and xenophobia of the world around them.
Far from romanticizing Roma communities, Tony Gatlif continues in The Crazy Stranger with the portrait of minorities excluded from cinema's dominant representation. Therefore, the Roma community is shown in all its vitality, passion, and talent, but also in its tendency towards inebriation, crime and violence, a result of the segregation and xenophobia of the world around them.
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Cast:
Romain Duris, Rona Hartner, Izidor Serban, Florin Moldovan, Ovidiu Balan, Dan Astileanu -
Original Title:
Gadjo Dilo -
Country:
Romania, France -
Year:
1997 - 113’ Subtitles: PT, EN
Director
Tony Gatlif
Born in 1948 in Algiers under the name Michel Dahmani, Tony Gatlif left the Algerian capital at the start of the 60s and went to France, where he lived experiences of delinquency and went through juvenile correction centers until he managed to make his way in cinema. In 1975, he debuted La tête en Ruines, and directed, in the early 1980s, Corre Gitano, his first work on the condition of the Gypsy people. After Les Princes (1983), which earned him critical acclaim for the first time, he continued his obsession with Roma culture in Latcho Drom (1992), a documentary on gypsy music that won the Un Certain Regard award at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1997, with the acclaimed Gadjo Dilo, about a young Frenchman who travels to Romania in search of a missing singer, he won the Silver Leopard at the Locarno Festival. His films were present several times in the Official Section of the Cannes Film Festival, which awarded him, in 2004 the Best Director Award, for the autobiographical Exils. Tom Medina is his 19th film, preceded by other important works such as Korkoro (2009), The Outraged (2012), Geronimo (2014) or Djam (2017).