Latcho Drom
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Thu 17 July 2008 // 21:00
Fri 18 July 2008 // 21:00
Latcho Drom
Tony Gatlif/France/1994/103mins/PG
Tues 15th/Thurs 17th/Fri 19th/Sun 20th July 9pm/ £3 / £4
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/1994/103mins/PG
Tues 15th/Thurs 17th/Fri 19th/Sun 20th July 9pm/ £3 / £4
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.