Transylvania (film)

Transylvania
Directed by Tony Gatlif
Produced by Frank Mancuso Jr.
Tara L. Craig
Written by Tony Gatlif
Starring Asia Argento
Amira Casar
Birol Ünel
Alexandra Beaujard
Marco Castoldi
Music by Tony Gatlif
Delphine Mantoulet
Cinematography Céline Bozon
Edited by Monique Dartonne
Distributed by Peccadillo Pictures (UK)
Release dates
 Cannes
May 28, 2006
United Kingdom
August 10, 2007
Running time
 103 minutes
Country France
Language Italian
French
Hungarian
Romanian
English

Transylvania is a 2006 French drama film starring Asia Argento. In 2006, Director Tony Gatlif and composer Delphine Mantoulet won the "Georges Delerue Prize" at the Flanders International Film Festival for the score, and Gatlif was nominated for the "Grand Prix" award. Transylvania premiered at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival in France on May 28,[1] and premiered at in the United States on March 16, 2007 at the Cleveland International Film Festival and in the United Kingdom at the Cambridge Film Festival on July 6, 2007 (with a later theatrical release on August 10, 2007).

Plot

It's the story of Zingarina (Asia Argento), a rebel Italian girl who goes to Transylvania with her best friend Marie (Amira Casar) and a young interpreter, Luminita (Alexandra Beaujard) seeking for her enamoured one Milan Agustin (Morgan), who has been expelled from France, the country where they had known each other and fallen in love; but she knows he's a road-musician and works in a gipsy violinist Band. Zingarina refinds him, during a Pagan Festival (Herod's Feast); but, he says to her that their love-story is over. This girl, angry and deluded, doesn't want to come back to France and, during her senseless travel through the boulevards and the villages of this mysterious and friendly land, she meets Tchangalo (Birol Unel), a charming and travelling merchant of a Turkish descent, between them there's a strange feeling... This should be the story, a passion and love story like any other... However, being in reality a road-movie (as a footage), the protagonistes are: the pressing music and a suggestive location. It's Transylvania with all its contrasts and paradoxes: the magic and the rough reality, the mystery and the simplicity, the exorcisms and the pagan traditions, the spirituality and the "Herod's Carnaval", some long silences and the unchained gipsy dances, the medieval suburbs and the very modern industrial sites, a somber snowy scenery but full of extravagant personages and a colorful Folklore... At the end, Zingarina is conquered by this enormous "Global Circus" and she understands that it is her world...

Cast

References

  1. ↑ "Festival de Cannes: Transylvania". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-12-18.

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