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Cinema verité icon Albert Maysles captures the best in very Gypsy music while highlighting the diversity of the Romani people in this documentary tracing the World Music Institute's Gypsy Caravan six-... read more
DVD Release Date: August 26, 2008
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July 20, 2008(Johnny Depp is in this...?) Anyway, this was a nice documentary/musical about the lives of various Gypsy band members as they make their way to the Gypsy Caravan. It's well made and the music is amazing.
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December 2, 2007This is a beautiful film, one of the best documentaries of this sub-genre (music, stranger in a strange land) - and though it spends a lot of time in the "comfort zone", it's always beautiful. Of course, the music and the subjects are very engaging, so it's easy to love.
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September 17, 2007Very worthwhile documentary--serves even more as a sociological study than it does about music (outside the fact that music IS so integral to understanding Gypsies).
Critic Reviews
January 4, 2008
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
September 6, 2007
Richard Nilsen, Arizona Republic
If you have any ear for non-Western music, Gypsy Caravan is a must. Full Review
August 31, 2007
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press
The 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. Full Review
August 23, 2007
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
If 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... Full Review
August 17, 2007
Peter Howell, Toronto Star
Gypsy 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.' Full Review
August 17, 2007
Jason Anderson, Globe and Mail
The personalities of the players also contribute energy. They are an immensely charismatic bunch. Full Review
August 9, 2007
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
An eye-opener, an ear-opener and, most important, a heart-opener.
August 4, 2007
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
It'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 t... Full Review
July 12, 2007
Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter
Not quite fully satisfying as either cinematic ethnography or as a concert film.
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