
Zingarina, who is two-months pregnant, travels from France to Transylvania with her friend Marie to seek out her lover Milan Agustin that was deported from France. They hire the guide and interpreter Luminitsa to help them to find the musician Milan. When she finds him, she is rejected and Milan tells that he was not deported, but left her. Zingarina has a breakdown and leaves Marie on the road, wandering with a street boy. Soon she meets the traveling trader Tchangalo and sh... (Full plot summary below)
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Zingarina, who is two-months pregnant, travels from France to Transylvania with her friend Marie to seek out her lover Milan Agustin that was deported from France. They hire the guide and interpreter Luminitsa to help them to find the musician Milan. When she finds him, she is rejected and Milan tells that he was not deported, but left her. Zingarina has a breakdown and leaves Marie on the road, wandering with a street boy. Soon she meets the traveling trader Tchangalo and she joins him in a road travel without destiny.
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| Urban CinefileAndrew L. UrbanThe mood, the music and the melancholy remain true to Gatlif's signature, but there is a sense of incompleteness about the film which detracts from it. |
| Hollywood ReporterBernard BesserglikA love story with star actors and a bigger budget heightens the mainstream appeal of Tony Gatlif's ethnic road musical. |
| Film4Jon FortgangRaw, ragged, rambling and romantic - if the sound of a furious violin drifting down the alley quickens your pulse, you may find Gatlif's gypsy drama a seductive and potent experience. |
| Times (UK)Wendy IdeThe real love affair is not between Zingarina and Tchangalo; it's between Zingarina and the country where she has her child. |
| The ListKaleem AftabClunky dialogue and weak plotting impede some of the more visceral and visual pleasures here but this is another fine example of Gatlif's osmotic, unique, connective, free-form cinema. |
| Eye for FilmAmber WilkinsonThe landscape plays a major role... with its bleak, open spaces, adding to the feeling that the characters and their emotions are curiously incidental. |
| Little White LiesJonathan WilliamsConfused passion and twisted emotions make for a captivating ride. |
| BBC.comLaura BushellGatlif's vision of life on the open road is highly (sometimes overly) romantic, peppered with lively music and striking landscapes: it's the feeding of the senses that takes priority over plotting or polish in Transylvania. |
| Financial TimesNigel AndrewsWhen not hyperkinetic, the film is stone-cold dull. |
| Time OutTrevor JohnstonAn insidiously memorable visual experience, even if it offers only dazzling snapshots of contemporary life in the region which gives it its title. |