Time Of The Gypsies

The third film from the Yugoslavian director of the acclaimed WHEN FATHER WAS AWAY ON BUSINESS was inspired by a newspaper article on the inter-European trade in young Gypsy children. The result is an extraordinary epic that employs an elliptical, fantastic style influenced by Latin American magic realism and features nonprofessional, gypsy actors delivering most of their dialogue in Romanian (a language the director barely understands). It's a remarkable achievement.

A kindhearted Gypsy teenager, Perhan (Dujmovic, who costarred in WHEN FATHER WAS AWAY), is forced to leave his ramshackle home in the Skopje ghetto to accompany his young sister Danira (Sali) on a ...