GamerTab That was an excellent one.

Thehibikiew Not even bad in a good way

Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Bessie Smyth Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

ecmelton-186-105049 Gadjo Dilo is a much different film than Black Cat, White Cat, which also deals with Roma culture. Where Black Cat, White Cat was colorful and fun, Gadjo Dilo was gray and somber, but that suits its message much more appropriately. The movie focuses on a young man from France, Stephane, who while traveling around Europe befriends a group of Roma who are being discriminated against by the local villagers. In particular, he becomes very close to an older man named Isidor who is lamenting his son's arrest and enjoys drinking heavily. Isidor adopts the Frenchman as a surrogate son and allows him to stay in his house. Stephane's hobby is recording the musicians that he comes across on cassette tapes, and Romani prove to be a treasure trove for this. Initially Stephane has mentality of a tourist. He's not actually very interested in the people or their culture until he finds out that so many of them are musicians, and even then he is not genuinely interested in them. He's interested in their music as a novelty, something from a culture that isn't his own, but he doesn't actually have any appreciation for what the music means or the people that make it. That is until he begins a romance with Sabrina, a Roma woman who lives nearby, and he decides not to leave. As he stays with them he develops a deeper friendship with Isidor, and a more in depth understanding of the Romani. They become like his family. When Isodor's son is released from prison and then killed, Stephane has to face the devastating grief of the man he's become very close to. Isidor is playing the violin at a wedding when he is told of the news. At this wedding Stephane sees the attendees treating the gypsy band that features Isidor as little more than a novelty, much the same way he did when he was recording his tapes. He appears very obviously disgusted at this revelation and destroys all the tapes he had made while also doing a tribute dance to Isidor's loss. The movie is very critical of the dismissive attitude towards the Romani. It tries to show that the people behind the music are actually people and deserve more dignity and basic human courtesy than they receive. However, the movie itself does portray Isidor, the main Gypsy character other than Sabina, as a manipulative alcoholic and overall a fairly pathetic person. He is likable and nice, but he also at one points begs for sex and then throws a tantrum when he doesn't get his way. If he's supposed to represent an entire culture, this is not a very flattering portrayal. Gadjo Dilo wants to portray the Roma as an extremely underprivileged class that are often the victim of bigotry. It portrays them as being very pitiful and doesn't show much of a distinctive culture. Gadjo Dilo does have some philosophic substance in the way it addresses empathy and the way certain people are treated as novelties, but that message could apply to any number of ethnic groups. The movie is well-intentioned, but it's not a film that should be watched to gain a better understanding of Romani culture. They should be watched for their entertainment value.

sesht This was made 15 years ago. Like most memorable flicks, it still resonates. About a traveller who just wants to understand a close one no longer around, quintessentially, even literally, following in his footsteps, looking for the voice that swayed them both, in a strange land, that, like every other land these days, has a mix of the strangely/reluctantly hospitable, along with the cruelly/typically inhospitable, our hero nevertheless takes his chances. And we're along for a wild ride from the get-go, ever since we are witness to our lead deciding he no longer wants to walk the snow-capped wilderness and begins dancing in the middle of the road, reluctantly plodding on after that little bit of tantrum, that I thought he was justifiably entitled to. Ha makes friends among those who're perfect free spirits at heart, and (come to think of it) in mind too, not knowing the language initially, while being spurned by those who can make his predicament a little easier but choose not to, conditioned as they are by the prejudices all of us harbor against perfect strangers. Our man is made of sterner stuff, as is his drunken host who finds, in him, perhaps a new reason to give the world a good fight to get his own back. Now here's the clichéd part: there is a gradual easing of tensions, and even the hint of slow, but deep warmth, and the promise of romance in the air. All of this offset by giving us s glimpse into the lives, and even the persecutions, of these persecuted. There's a wonderful sequence in which one of the drink leads, describes to the world at large, the world as he wishes it were, making things up in terms of those circumstances, as if it were actually the case for him and his ilk, in the great city that's Paris. While the world looks on, indulges this old fool and rogue, knowing fully well that that there's a yarn being spun, perhaps with a purpose. That scene, and quite a few like it, including a recording session that's funny, melodious and entertaining all at the same time, surpassed only by an in-tavern dance sequence in which this same rogue is teeing hard to get his 'photograph taken', so to speak. Followed immediately by a dash of reality in which, he 'needs' that taken, from an unorthodox source (a very creepy sequence, yet ultimately poignant and human - a matter stroke of narration and performance). All at once pathetic and endearing, Izidor's character, and amazing performance has to be one of the best I've seen in any movie for a long time now, perfectly complemented by both Hartman and Duris, who has to be one of the most atypical leads in any movie, his great later work in 'Paris' and 'L'arnacoeur' notwithstanding. Thanks to Alliance Francaise for this screening. Very similar in tone to 'Seducing Dr. Lewis', from the other perspective for once , albeit without all the wit that pervaded every frame of that flick, at least in extent.Not to be missed.

emmajukic This film is very entertaining, and at first glance is an enjoyable insight into the a 'Gypsy' community. However, what Western audiences tend to forget is that 'Gypsy' is a derogatory term, and the characters in the films of Gatlif (and Emir Kusturica) are supposed to represent Roma people, which is the correct term to use.Not only does the film stereotype Roma into a very narrow depiction, focussing on their 'intoxicating' and sensual existence of dancing and music, reality is not present. The reality of the situation for Europe's Romanies is as Europe's most marginalised people, often living in poverty and without education. To find out more, type in 'Roma rights' into google.As one last example - did it not seem entirely unreaslistic that at the end of the film, after Sabina's brother has burned alive and her village been destroyed, she smiles serenely from Stéphane's car, being whisked away from her past life.Sorry Tony, but you've done the people you call your own another injustice.

alexdv This movie is a lie about romanian gypsy,I am from Romania and I can tell you that is a shame ...romanian gypsy are people that don't like to work,they beg, steel, rob, rape...Our country is suffering and now that the borders are open other countries will see what gypsy are,in fact Italy,Spain are already full of them.The problem is that people think that romanians are the same as romanian gypsy,we are not,we are very different.You will see this comment like a racist one but after you will meet our gypsy you will understand.The movie is good,but the prolem is that romanians people made a film ,a good film,about gypsy when they are not ,they are nothing like this...Watch the movie,enjoy the movie but remember that a gypsy is nothing like this.And don't make confusion between a romanian and a gypsy