Director talented and mobile music lovers, Tony Gatlif we offer in each of his films a journey to meet musical people humanely. In "Gadjo Dilo", his most poignant, it succeeds in connecting music and history of a people, so that music, songs and dances arise here as a true testimony. For music, too often seen as the next human being, is actually an organ intrinsic man, inseparable from its history and character, as important as the Word. Tony Gatlif and it shows very well, he filmed the expressions of the characters as they sing or dance, as in the tragic moments in the brief moments of joy and always with curiosity and respect.
His films also makes everyone a culture little known to the general public without falling into mere vulgarity. Rather than make concessions in the very nature of his films, he draws on famous actors like Romain Duris, although at times the actor seems bland face of authentic characters of his films.
Like Emir Kusturica, Gatlif films and makes the music speak, perhaps with less humor and more realism. Documentary, film music or art film? Difficult to define the exact style. Whatever the final. Adults and children alike find themselves united by music that blurs the differences of ages, as composed by a common language vocabulary natural and innate.
But Tony Gatlif is also a big advocate of nomads and botched characters with life. In "Gaspard and Robinson," he paints a portrait of two friends complement internally destroyed, sedentary but nomadic in their heads forever. "Transylvania", "Exiles" and especially "I was born a Cygogne" complete the picture of homelessness. The metaphor of the "legless bird that arises to die" mentioned by Wong Kar-Wai is also valid for the director of "Gadjo Dilo".
Finally, Gatlif's films must be understood as an invitation to travel and an opening on the other in what he has more land. With "Latcho Drom", his most ambitious project, he initiated the documentary art, always showing the history of music through that of his people.
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