Directed by:
Tony GatlifScreenplay:
Tony GatlifCinematography:
Patrick GhiringhelliCast:
Céline Sallette, Rachid Yous, David Murgia, Nailia Harzoune, Finnegan Oldfield, Vincent Heneine, Adrien Ruiz, Tim Seyfi, Mathurin Voltz, Sébastien Houbani (more)Plots(1)
South of France. In the sultry August heat, Geronimo, a young social educator, tries to ease tensions between the youngsters of the St Pierre neighborhood. The mood changes when Nil Terzi, a teenage girl of Turkish origin, flees an arranged marriage, running to the arms of her gypsy lover, Lucky Molina. Their escape sparks hostilities between the two clans. When the jousting and the musical battles begin, Geronimo struggles to quell the ensuing unrest around her. (Cannes Film Festival)
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The summary made this movie seem interesting. In reality, you see Turks fighting the Romani people and often it is unclear who is who. The result is a movie chock-full of Balkan temper, which I had a hard time swallowing. For example take Céline Sallette’s character – an investigator who spends the whole movie walking around as if she owned the place, while I was thinking that she should mind her own business. Because if she doesn’t, she shouldn’t be surprised that things get messy. I must say that in certain places, the film seemed quite violent and aggressive to me… too much so. Both the Romani and Turks and the music contributed to this impression. The setting could have been quite interesting, but people kept starting to dance or move weirdly at random, which threw me totally for a loop and I was waiting for this madness to end.
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