Transylvania

France

2006

103 Min

Color

2.35:1

English, Hungarian, Italian, Romanian, French

Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
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PROD Vadim Glowna, Raymond Tarabay

CAST Asia Argento, Amira Casar, Birol Ünel, Alexandra Beaujard, Marco Castoldi, Bea Pálya

MUSIC Tony Gatlif, Delphine Mantoulet

SOUND Adam Wolny, Philippe Welsh

Cannes (Out of Competition), Toronto (Contemporary World Cinema), Ghent (Competition): Georges Delerue Prize, AFI FEST (World Cinema)

Synopsis

Zingarina is not a gypsy, but a rebel. She leaves for Transylvania with her friend, Marie in search of the man of her dreams. Marie never lets Zingarina alone, because she knows she is capable of anything. Imagine it, and Zingarina has done it. At a festival, Zingarina meets the man of her dreams. Yet in the noisy atmosphere of the festival, she discovers that she is all alone in the world, once again without love, without anything to guide her, or anything to hold on to. —Cineuropa

Director

Tony Gatlif

Tony Gatlif (born as Michel Dahmani on September 10, 1948 in Algiers, Algeria) is a French film director of Romani ethnicity who also works as a screenwriter, composer, actor, and producer.

After a childhood in Algiers, Gatlif arrived in France in 1960 following the Algerian War of Independence. Gatlif struggled for years to break into the film industry, playing in several theatrical productions until directing his first film, La Tête en ruine, in 1975. He followed it with the 1979 La Terre au ventre, a story of the Algerian War of Independence.

Since the 1981 Corre, gitano, Gatlif’s work has been focused on the Roma people of Europe, from whom he partially traces his descent.

After making Gaspard et Robinson in 1990, Gatlif spent 1992 and 1993 shooting Latcho Drom, which was awarded numerous prizes. This feature-length musical film, often mislabelled as a documentary, deals with gypsy culture throughout the world around the theme of their music and dance. For Vincent… read more