The landscape plays a major role... with its bleak, open spaces, adding to the feeling that the characters and their emotions are curiously incidental.
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06/25/07
Transylvania (2006)
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Reviews Counted:18
Fresh:13
Rotten:5
Average Rating:5.6/10
Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins
Genre: Dramas
Reviews for Transylvania
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The mood, the music and the melancholy remain true to Gatlif's signature, but there is a sense of incompleteness about the film which detracts from it.
10/04/08
Gatlif seems literally to make it up as he goes along, a modus operandi that works fine in the impromptu musical interludes but fails utterly in terms of drama.
08/10/07
A love story with star actors and a bigger budget heightens the mainstream appeal of Tony Gatlif's ethnic road musical.
10/18/06
French- Algerian director Tony Gatlif shows great skill in capturing local colour and texture, sourcing a rogues’ gallery of memorable images from the fog-shrouded environs. He’s less successful at giving any direction or meaning to his central pairing’s
08/10/07
No vampires.
11/14/07
The whole is lively and colourful but those who know Gatlif 's work may feel they've seen it all before. If you haven't, you may be more impressed.
08/10/07
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04/23/09
Raw, ragged, rambling and romantic - if the sound of a furious violin drifting down the alley quickens your pulse, you may find Gatlif's gypsy drama a seductive and potent experience.
08/10/07
Confused passion and twisted emotions make for a captivating ride.
08/10/07
Forget the plot and soak up the glorious cinematography.
08/10/07
Gatlif's vision of life on the open road is highly (sometimes overly) romantic, peppered with lively music and striking landscapes: it's the feeding of the senses that takes priority over plotting or polish in Transylvania.
08/10/07
Seemingly semi-improvised dialogue is kept mostly to a minimum, which is just as well because some of it's awful.
05/30/06
When not hyperkinetic, the film is stone-cold dull.
08/10/07
Gatlif is thrilled by the apparently inexhaustible energy of Romany music; a little of it goes quite a long way. But it's beautifully shot.
08/10/07
A remarkably gutsy odyssey.
08/10/07
An insidiously memorable visual experience, even if it offers only dazzling snapshots of contemporary life in the region which gives it its title.
08/09/07
Perhaps Tony Gatlif's oddest film to date, it's a kind of road trip with so few borders that it's easy to get lost along the way. The plot is as obtuse as its mix of languages
01/28/08
The real love affair is not between Zingarina and Tchangalo; it’s between Zingarina and the country where she has her child.
08/10/07
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