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Gadjo Dilo

1997, Movie, NR, 97 mins

Gadjo Dilo: Review

GADJO DILO
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A young Frenchman, bewitched by a gypsy song recorded by his late father, strikes out for Romania in hopes of find the mysterious singer, Nora Luca. Stephane (Romain Duris) is in fact searching for more than a chanteuse with a stirring voice: He's looking for a connection to the father who spent his life traveling and recording exotic music, neglecting his wife and sons at home in Paris and dying while on a trip to Syria. And while he doesn't find what he thinks he's looking for, Stephane does adopt a surrogate father in elderly musician Izidor (Isidor Serban), a boisterous gypsy -- or Rom, short for Romany -- who undertakes to teach Stephane the Romanes language and proudly introduces him as "my Frenchman." He also finds Sabina (Rona Hartner), who's shunned by her clan for having abandoned her husband in Belgium, but seduces Stephane with her bold manner and sensuous dancing. Writer-director Tony Gatlif is himself of Romany origin, and like his previous explorations of Rom life and culture, LES PRINCES and LATCHO DROM, this loosely plotted film is more concerned with cultural color than the subtleties of character. For all Gatlif's sympathetic approach to gypsy life, our identification is with Stephane, the gadjo dilo (crazy outsider) of the title: We see the rituals and traditions of gypsy life from the outside, and from the outside it looks as though there's a whole lot of noisy drunkenness, macho violence and foul-mouthed belligerence built into their culture. That in no way excuses the Romanians who actively persecute the Rom, but you can see how living in close proximity to them could be trying. leave a comment --Maitland McDonagh
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