So, there were three movies I watched together by Tony Gatlif. Gadjo Dilo, Latcho Drom and Korkoro. My last review already says what I think of the 2nd one. But Gadjo Dilo isn’t only my list for the only reason being that I watched it before I ever got a chance to write it on my list. What’s the point of writing down a movie you’ve already seen? SO, little mini review of Gadjo Dilo (Translation: Foolish Outsider):
A Frenchman named Stefan goes to Romania looking for a Romani singer named Nora Luca. While trying to find her, Stefan spends a drunken night with an older local Rom, who invites him back to his village. But Stefan doesn’t speak Romanian or Romani, and the only Roma in the village who speaks French is woman who refuses to talk to …show more content…
The movie’s plot surrounds this family as they interact with many of the gadje villagers, including an orphan boy who keeps following them, the mayor of the village who takes in the boy and is friendly with the Roma, the schoolteacher/town hall secretary who is secretly a member of the French Resistance, and the police who constantly harass and persecute the family. As the laws become more and more hostile towards the Romani family and their way of life, the few friends they have in the village try to help and protect them as much as they can.
Korkoro was originally conceived as a documentary, but due to the lack of any actual recorded documents, the director saw it best to just make it a historical drama based on a true story.
The movie discusses a rarely-mentioned part of WWII history; Porajmos, also known as the Romani Holocaust. People forget that it wasn’t just Jewish people who were rounded up and sent to concentration camps. The Romani death toll is estimated to be from 200,000 all the way up to 1.5 million. That’s a lot of lives lost and ignored by …show more content…
Maybe I just don’t like the characters in this movies as much as I do in Gadjo Dilo, which is a problem since this movie relies heavily on its characters. Maybe it can be just a bit, I don’t know, boring?Only on occasions. Either way, I liked it just fine, in fact, if this is the worst Gatlif has to offer, then all his movies must be great. But it doesn’t have a lot of replay value, after about the third time watching I was satisfied and didn’t feel the need to watch it again for a long, long
A Frenchman named Stefan goes to Romania looking for a Romani singer named Nora Luca. While trying to find her, Stefan spends a drunken night with an older local Rom, who invites him back to his village. But Stefan doesn’t speak Romanian or Romani, and the only Roma in the village who speaks French is woman who refuses to talk to …show more content…
The movie’s plot surrounds this family as they interact with many of the gadje villagers, including an orphan boy who keeps following them, the mayor of the village who takes in the boy and is friendly with the Roma, the schoolteacher/town hall secretary who is secretly a member of the French Resistance, and the police who constantly harass and persecute the family. As the laws become more and more hostile towards the Romani family and their way of life, the few friends they have in the village try to help and protect them as much as they can.
Korkoro was originally conceived as a documentary, but due to the lack of any actual recorded documents, the director saw it best to just make it a historical drama based on a true story.
The movie discusses a rarely-mentioned part of WWII history; Porajmos, also known as the Romani Holocaust. People forget that it wasn’t just Jewish people who were rounded up and sent to concentration camps. The Romani death toll is estimated to be from 200,000 all the way up to 1.5 million. That’s a lot of lives lost and ignored by …show more content…
Maybe I just don’t like the characters in this movies as much as I do in Gadjo Dilo, which is a problem since this movie relies heavily on its characters. Maybe it can be just a bit, I don’t know, boring?Only on occasions. Either way, I liked it just fine, in fact, if this is the worst Gatlif has to offer, then all his movies must be great. But it doesn’t have a lot of replay value, after about the third time watching I was satisfied and didn’t feel the need to watch it again for a long, long