The Man Without a Country: Gatlif Explores the Tribulations of Redemption in Oblique Character Study
French-Algerian director Tony Gatlif remains something of a European anomaly despite steady output since the 1970s, many of which have premiered at high profile film festivals, with Cannes remaining his mainstay. Often exploring the roots of his Romani culture through displaced characters, his nineteenth feature Tom Medina is purportedly partly autobiographical while revisiting similar themes and parameters.
While his 1993 musical Latcho Drom remains one of his most lauded efforts, the late 1990s and early 2000s afforded him significant visibility, including several projects starring a young Romain Duris, such as 2004’s Exils, which won him a Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival.…...
French-Algerian director Tony Gatlif remains something of a European anomaly despite steady output since the 1970s, many of which have premiered at high profile film festivals, with Cannes remaining his mainstay. Often exploring the roots of his Romani culture through displaced characters, his nineteenth feature Tom Medina is purportedly partly autobiographical while revisiting similar themes and parameters.
While his 1993 musical Latcho Drom remains one of his most lauded efforts, the late 1990s and early 2000s afforded him significant visibility, including several projects starring a young Romain Duris, such as 2004’s Exils, which won him a Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival.…...
- 7/8/2021
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
In his almost 40-year career, writer-director Tony Gatlif has taken an admirable stand for the underdogs in French society, particularly Gypsies (Latcho Drom) and Africans (Time for Outrage!) Geronimo returns to the winning gambit of contemporary ethnic music and dance he does so well, and also to his typical problem of a weak screenplay. If this drama about a woman who works with kids in a French housing project was only able to maintain the energy and excitement of its acrobatic, show-stopping hip hop numbers, it could reach out to just the kind of angry, disenfranchised people
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- 5/20/2014
- by Deborah Young
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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