Latcho Drom
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Tue 15 July 2008 // 21:00
(Tue 15th, Thu 17th, Fri 18th, Sun 20th / 9pm / £4/3)
(Tony Gatlif / France / 1994 / 103 mins / PG)
Latcho Drom means "safe journey". This is a journey in music, dance, landscape and culture celebrating and joining in the lives of groups of nomadic Romany gypsies from India through to Spain. The beautiful and evocative journey takes place over a year. Gatlif captures the elemental essentials of this life through images of song and dance, young and old celebrating, the cultural values of family, journey, love, separateness, and persecution.
Some scenes are acted, but there is no dialogue or narration, only partial translation of some songs.
The film illustrates the many conditions in which the Romany people live from earthbound nomads in the hot deserts of Asia, poor tree-dwellers in the frozen plains of Eastern Europe, and craftspeople and traders in the hills and seasides of north Africa and western Europe. It is a mesmerising and beautiful piece of visual poetry.
(Tony Gatlif / France / 1994 / 103 mins / PG)
Latcho Drom means "safe journey". This is a journey in music, dance, landscape and culture celebrating and joining in the lives of groups of nomadic Romany gypsies from India through to Spain. The beautiful and evocative journey takes place over a year. Gatlif captures the elemental essentials of this life through images of song and dance, young and old celebrating, the cultural values of family, journey, love, separateness, and persecution.
Some scenes are acted, but there is no dialogue or narration, only partial translation of some songs.
The film illustrates the many conditions in which the Romany people live from earthbound nomads in the hot deserts of Asia, poor tree-dwellers in the frozen plains of Eastern Europe, and craftspeople and traders in the hills and seasides of north Africa and western Europe. It is a mesmerising and beautiful piece of visual poetry.