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When the Road Bends... Tales of a Gypsy Caravan
Directed by
Jasmine Dellal
Not Rated
2006
1h 50m
Documentary
,
Music
7.6
86%
82%
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A brief look into Romany culture and Rom (Gypsies) from around the globe as five famous Romany groups tour the USA.
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Cast of When the Road Bends... Tales of a Gypsy Caravan
Fanfare Ciocarlia
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Taraf de Haidouks
Self
Esma Redžepova
Self
Johnny Depp
Self
Jasmine Dellal
Director / Producer
When the Road Bends... Tales of a Gypsy Caravan Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
For its glimpses of various lifestyles and personalities -- an ancient but spry fiddler, a young male who performs in drag -- it isn't bad.
Arizona Republic
Richard Nilsen
If you have any ear for non-Western music, Gypsy Caravan is a must.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
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.
Chicago Sun-Times
Bill Stamets
The camera work is always note-perfect.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
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...
Austin Chronicle
Marrit Ingman
Throughout, the ebullience and passion of the music gives viewers a point of entry into what it means to be Roma, part of an ancient culture in a modern world.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
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 tradition.
Seattle Times
John Hartl
Gypsy Caravan has been compared with Tony Gatlif's 1993 film Latcho Drom, which took a dreamier approach to Gypsy culture. This one's more down-to-earth, but it's just as entertaining.
The Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
Not quite fully satisfying as either cinematic ethnography or as a concert film.
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein
Caravan 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.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Gypsy 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.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Crust
Uncovers the same joy and sorrow that characterizes the Romani music in the everyday lives of the musicians who play it.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
It'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.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
As 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.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
Gypsy 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.
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
It'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.
Newsday
Jan Stuart
Everyone 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.
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
An irresistibly vibrant concert-tour documentary by Jasmine Dellal.
Village Voice
Jim Ridley
More than a vibrant experiment in ethnomusical cross-pollination, it's just great fun, tempered by loss but rippling with gusto.
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager
Music is the conduit for repudiating stereotypes and fostering cultural unity in Gypsy Caravan.
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