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Directed by
Tony Gatlif (Transylvania, Exils, Swing, Vengo, Gadjo Dilo, Latcho Drom)
Starring
James Thiérrée (Korkoro - Freedom)
Marc Lavoine (Crossing Line, French men)
Marie-Josée Croze (Tell No One, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The Barbarian Invasions - Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival 2003)
Rufus (Amelie - Best Supporting Actor at the Cesars Awards 2002, Delicatessen, Train of Life)
Production
Tony Gatlif - Princes Production
2008 / Original language: French and some Rom / Color / 2.35 / SR SRD / available in hd
A Gypsy family travels the French roads during the Second World War, followed by Little Claude, a young boy seeking a new family after his parents "left and never returned".
Upon reaching a town where they traditionally stop for a few months and work in vineyards, they learn that a new law forbids them from being nomadic.
Theodore, the town's mayor, and Miss Lundi, the schoolteacher, protect and help the Gypsies. Despite this, they are arrested and placed in an internment camp. Theodore manages to rescue them and gives the family a piece of property where they must settle. But the Gypsies' deeply ingrained thirst for freedom makes this sedentary lifestyle difficult to bear.
After Theodore and Miss Lundi are arrested for resistance, the Gypsies decide they must get back on the move in order to remain free…
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Director
Tony Gatlif
(Transylvania, In Official Selection at the Cannes
Film Festival 2006; Exils – Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival 2004; Swing – In Official Selection at the Venice Film Festival 2002; Vengo; Gadjo Dilo - Prize of the Ecunemical Jury, Special Prize and Silver Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival 1997; Latcho Drom – Un Certain Regard Prize at the Cannes Film Festival 1993)
Production company
Princes Production
Director of photography
Julien Hirsch
(Best photography at the CĂ©sars 2008 for Lady Chatterley, Changing Times, Novo)
Chief editor
Monique Dartonne
(Gadjo dilo, Exils)
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"Korkoro is maybe Tony Gatlif's best film."
L'Humanité
"It's simply riveting. It's got everything: a new take on a familiar subject, a compelling script, lovely visuals, splendid acting, a marvelous soundtrack, and a restraint in key scenes that tells you this is the stuff of fine filmmaking... the performances ring so true... you can't take your eyes off the screen – that's good cinema... My rating: four-and-half stars."
The Gazette
"A magnificient paean to the mad ecstasy of freedom with a wholly original take on imprisonment... the helmer's most gut-wrenching feature and his most acessible opus since Latcho Drom and Gadjo Dilo."
"The film which generated the most buzz at the Fest"
Variety
"Korkoro is one of the first films of this era in years with something new to say. Highly recommended viewing."
Cinestrata Montreal
"... a beautiful film, both simple and powerful, that mixes comedy, sensitivity and drama in a lively script with twists and turns... The filmmaker knows how to weave in irresistible secondary plots... all drawn together with uplifting music."
"The images, rhythm and music of this compassionate and colorful film from the director of Latcho Drom, are a sheer delight."
Ledevoir.com
"With solid performances, Korkoro (Freedom) has the great virtue of letting us get inside the soul of a people who, in the face of hardship, remain happily free spirited."
La Presse
“Tony Gatlif’s most activist and deeply moving film to date.”
Mondomix
“Liberté, loaded with remarkable scenes, is perhaps Tony Gatlif’s best film.”
L'Humanité
“Sensitive, moving, sincere, tough – Gatlif’s latest is an exceptional film. A jewel of truth.”
La Nouvelle RĂ©publique du Centre-Ouest
“Great attention to historical accuracy.
Surpassing tragedy, Tony Gatlif films the daily life of gypsies like no one else.”
L'Histoire
“A deeply moving tale, driven with large-hearted expressiveness by Tony Gatlif and carried by the divinely inspired James Thiérrée. From the very beginning, we are swept away into the poetic universe of a filmmaker who for many years has focused on the life of gypsies and the cause they defend. Treated without sentimentality, the strength of its subject makes it a vibrant, powerful film with a universal message.”
Rolling Stone
“A warmhearted approach, humanistic vision and raw emotion: the formula remains as engaging as it is effective.”
Marie France
“It is a magnificent, tremendously moving film, overflowing with life. The imagery is glorious. LIBERTE is a hymn to life.”
Notre Temps
“LIBERTE is Gatlif’s most understated, restrained work – but not his least moving.”
Le Point
“Tony Gatlif’s film is moving and serves a purpose.”
Le Monde des Ados
“A masterful story, respectful of its characters, subtle and conscientious in its historical treatment, LIBERTE never stirs up emotions that come naturally, in all their dignity.”
Le Nouvel Observateur
“With LIBERTE, Tony Gatlif brilliantly succeeds in “opening the strings of time” to highlight an often-neglected page of history.”
Le Figaro Magazine
“...a powerful film. …an energetic, explosive film that avoids stereotypes, teeming with free-spirited characters…
Bolstered by an well-chosen cast, this beautiful and historically relevant piece resonates like a tribute to all those who, even today, risk their liberty to live on the road.”
Le Journal du Dimanche
“Like crying with sadness repressed too long, Gatlif speaks of what everyone knows but doesn’t say: what the Nazis did to the Gypsies. He shows us the soul of a people and a man possessed (James Thiérrée). His film has no arrogance (…) it overflows with love, pain and anger.”
Marianne
“A vibrant hymn to gypsy culture, brilliantly incarnated with the mind-blowing burlesque grace of actor James Thiérrée.”
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