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Gypsy Caravan: When The Road Bends (2006)
Director: Jasmine Dellal
Movie review
From Time Out London
Jasmine Dellal’s documentary of the 2001 sell-out tour of the US undertaken by a specially convoked five-nation group of Gypsy musicians offers some individually vibrant performances and interesting ‘back-home’ interview footage but is somewhat let down by a lack of directorial intuition and dull or clumsy editing. The great Albert Maysles is credited among 11 cinematographers, a plenitude that may help explain the film’s lack of visual coherence, rhythm and proper colour balance. Likewise, its insights into the history of the Romany diaspora, however sympathetic, seem cursory. Still, you can’t keep a good band down, and famous names such as Romania’s Taraf de Haïdouks, Macedonia’s ‘official queen of the Gypsies’ Esma Redzepova, Andalucia’s Antonio El PÃpa and Rajastan’s Maharaja not only blow up a storm or cry a river but give foot-stomping evidence of the diversity and connectedness of the vital Roma musical tradition.Author: Wally Hammond
Time Out London Issue 1936: September 26-October 2 2007
Cast & crew
Director: Jasmine Dellal
Producer: Jasmine Dellal
With: Maharaja, Antonio El Pipa, Esma Redzepova, Fanfare Ciocarlia, Taraf De Haïdouks, Johnny Depp
Genre(s): Documentaries
Rated: PG
Duration: 110 mins
UK Release: Jun 15 2007
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