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. Full Review |
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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 Full Review |
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B- |
No vampires. Full Review |
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4/5 |
A remarkably gutsy odyssey. Full Review |
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2/5 |
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. Full Review |
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2/5 |
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. Full Review |
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When not hyperkinetic, the film is stone-cold dull. Full Review |
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3/5 |
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. Full Review |
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3/5 |
The real love affair is not between Zingarina and Tchangalo; it’s between Zingarina and the country where she has her child. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
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. Full Review |
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3/5 |
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. Full Review |
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2/5 |
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 Full Review |
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3/5 |
Confused passion and twisted emotions make for a captivating ride. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Forget the plot and soak up the glorious cinematography. Full Review |
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3/6 |
An insidiously memorable visual experience, even if it offers only dazzling snapshots of contemporary life in the region which gives it its title. Full Review |
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3/5 |
The landscape plays a major role... with its bleak, open spaces, adding to the feeling that the characters and their emotions are curiously incidental. Full Review |
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A love story with star actors and a bigger budget heightens the mainstream appeal of Tony Gatlif's ethnic road musical. Full Review |
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Seemingly semi-improvised dialogue is kept mostly to a minimum, which is just as well because some of it's awful. Full Review |
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