The films of
Tony Gatlif

Gaspard et Robinson (1990)
Tony Gatlif
  Gadjo dilo (1997)
Tony Gatlif
  Je suis né d'une cigogne (1999)
Tony Gatlif
 
     
This bittersweet comedy makes a poignant statement about the importance of friendship and family in an increasingly fragmented society. Beautifully filmed...  [More...]   Gadjo dilo concludes Tony Gatlif’s loosely assembled and highly acclaimed trilogy exploring the culture of the Romany gypsies. After Les Princes (1982)...  [More...]   Je suis né d’une cigogne is both an insanely anarchic portrait of adolescent rebellion and an ingenious parable of social exclusion and immigration in an uncaring society...  [More...]  

Swing (2002)
Tony Gatlif
  Exils (2004)
Tony Gatlif
  Transylvania (2006)
Tony Gatlif
 
     
This hotchpotch of coming-of-age comedy-drama and gypsy culture would be unbearably trite and tacky were it not for Tony Gatlif’s gift for imbuing the most banal of situations with magic and poetry...  [More...]   Exils is a peculiar kind of road-movie which explores two apparently contradictory themes – the need for individual freedom and the need to belong somewhere...  [More...]   Watching this latest cinematic oddity from Tony Gatlif, it’s hard not to be struck by an uneasy sense of déja-vu. Part road movie, part exploration of the life of the nomad and East European culture...  [More...]