When the Road Bends: Tales of a Gypsy Caravan
Shadow Distribution | Release Date: June 15, 2007 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
73
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Generally favorable reviews based on 13 Critic Reviews
Positive:
11
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0
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90
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
I was thrilled and transported by it. It's a two-hour movie, and I'm only sorry it isn't two or three times as long. Read full review
88
Boston GlobeTy Burr
This is music to gorge on, raw ethnic survival in the form of sound. Read full review
83
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
An irresistibly vibrant concert-tour documentary. Read full review
80
VarietyRonnie Scheib
A potent combination of ethnography and concert film, Brit helmer Jasmine Dellal's joyous celebration of tzigane music follows the 2001 U.S. "Gypsy Caravan" tour, which showcased five bands from four countries. Read full review
80
Village VoiceJim Ridley
More than a vibrant experiment in ethnomusical cross-pollination, it's just great fun. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesKevin Crust
As compelling as the music and concert footage is, it is the vitality of the performers as characters that enables the movie to transcend the music documentary genre. Read full review
75
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Gypsy music is the music of pain, poverty and oppression, all of which she's experienced; it's their blues. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleRuthe Stein
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. Read full review
70
The New York TimesManohla 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. Read full review
70
Washington PostAnn Hornaday
Viewers are urged to grab an aisle seat, the better to dance when the music moves them -- as it surely will. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
As is, it's worth seeing, but you may get frustrated at the way Dellal raises provocative questions about ancestry and prejudice, only to lose them in the shuffle of so many mini-portraits of musicians, getting to know each other and each other's foreign yet familiar musical language, on a long 16-city tour. Read full review
50
New York PostV.A. Musetto
Johnny Depp puts in a cameo declaring that "most Americans believe the clichés about Gypsies." Unfortunately, the well-intentioned film never gets beyond clichés itself. Read full review
40
Film ThreatPhil Hall
The film is a bore. Read full review
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