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03/27/09
Gypsy Caravan (2006)
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Reviews Counted:19
Fresh:16
Rotten:3
Average Rating:7.1/10
Consensus: A dynamic doc following five Romani bands is a pleasure for the senses thanks to vibrant colors and eclectic music.
Reviews for Gypsy Caravan
Top CriticFor its glimpses of various lifestyles and personalities -- an ancient but spry fiddler, a young male who performs in drag -- it isn't bad.
01/04/08
Top CriticIf you have any ear for non-Western music, Gypsy Caravan is a must.
09/06/07
Top CriticThe emphasis remains on the personal stories of the players themselves who, for all their backstage squabbling, identify more with each other than any of the countries in which they've settled.
08/31/07
Top CriticThe camera work is always note-perfect.
08/24/07
Top CriticIf music were all, Gypsy Caravan would be amazing. As is, it's worth seeing, but you may get frustrated at the way Dellal raises provocative questions about ancestry and prejudice...
08/23/07
Top CriticGypsy Caravan succeeds in its primary goal to open ears and minds to Roma music, accurately described as being about 'the rhythm, the language, the feeling.'
08/17/07
Top CriticThe personalities of the players also contribute energy. They are an immensely charismatic bunch.
08/17/07
Top CriticAn eye-opener, an ear-opener and, most important, a heart-opener.
08/09/07
Top CriticIt's hardly surprising that Gypsy Caravan, a lively and lovely music documentary, is rife with whirling rhythms, wild, soaring melodic lines, the ululations of singers steeped in centuries of Romany tradition.
08/04/07
Top CriticNot quite fully satisfying as either cinematic ethnography or as a concert film.
07/12/07
Top CriticCaravan sounds great and if nothing else should help diminish the stereotype, blasted by the film's subjects, of Gypsies as little more than pickpockets whom travelers need to be wary of.
07/06/07
Top CriticGypsy Caravan could have used some judicious trimming, but you forgive Dellal her excesses as she forgives her artists theirs. This is music to gorge on, raw ethnic survival in the form of sound.
07/06/07
Top CriticUncovers the same joy and sorrow that characterizes the Romani music in the everyday lives of the musicians who play it.
06/28/07
Top CriticIt's easy to see why [director] Dellal had trouble turning the camera off, especially when confronted with a startling and sad plot twist. Viewers are urged to grab an aisle seat, the better to dance when the music moves them -- as it surely will.
06/28/07
Top CriticAs a music document and as a labor of unabashed love, the nonfiction feature Gypsy Caravan could hardly be better; as a movie, it could stand some improvement.
06/15/07
Top CriticGypsy Caravan avoids any serious discussion of the social issues that confront the world's 10 million Roma. Unfortunately, the well-intentioned film never gets beyond clichés itself.
06/15/07
Top CriticIt's a two-hour movie, and I'm only sorry it isn't two or three times as long. Let me read your thoughts: You're not much interested in Gypsy music, and the historical and cultural stuff might be pretty dry. That's what I thought too: Wrong and wrong.
06/14/07
Top CriticEveryone is having so much fun, one would really like to be a part of it. But the performance sequences are too jaggedly truncated to pull us in entirely.
06/14/07
Top CriticAn irresistibly vibrant concert-tour documentary by Jasmine Dellal.
06/13/07
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