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A Gypsy family tries to stay free from the Nazis while traveling through France.
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Glenn Heath Jr. Slant Magazine While much of Korkoro avoids stylistic flourishes, Gatlif picks his moments to use cinematic language to revel in the terror his characters experience. Rated: 3/4 Mar 27, 2011 Full Review Scott Tobias NPR Korkoro fashions a thin tapestry out of the authentic and the chintzy. Mar 24, 2011 Full Review Rachel Saltz New York Times The war hovers, its intrusions and dangers giving the story tension and a minute-by-minute poignancy: these lives, we're aware, may all too soon be erased. Rated: 4/5 Mar 24, 2011 Full Review Nora Lee Mandel Film-Forward.com Reminding the world of the Roma Holocaust. . .lovely film is as life-affirming as it is sad. If rated, it would be at most PG-13 and deserves to be seen by a wide audience. Rated: 8/10 Mar 26, 2011 Full Review David Noh Film Journal International There's a great, little-known story of the Nazi persecution of gypsies, but this narcissistic morass of bathos and pure clich is not it. Mar 25, 2011 Full Review Louis Proyect rec.arts.movies.reviews Despite some flaws, this is one of the more important films likely to be seen in 2011 since it deals with a people who are facing brutal discrimination all across Europe. Mar 18, 2011 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member I loved this film, even though it tells a brutal story. It is carefully and beautifully made and in a very unique style it somehow reveals something which is at the edge of extinction in all of us. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Audience Member One of my favourite movies. Although it's poetic and sensitive it is also exciting and riveting from beginning to end and quite unlike any other I've seen. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review Audience Member "Liberté" is an amazing movie, but it seems like it has already been forgotten, both by the critics and the public. This is really a pity when we know that the Gypsy culture - and more specifically the persecutions toward Romani people during World War II - is not very present in the Cinema. By choosing this subject, it is as if the film director Tony Gatlif was making a declaration of love to his own culture, but he is also presenting a part of the story which isn't well-known nowadays by a large part of the public. Many aspects of the Romani culture are presented in the movie : the music (the film was nominated at the César Awards for the award of the Best Music Written for a Film), the way of working blacksmithing, and their traditions. This last point is certainly the most important element of the movie. The Romani traditions represent the soul itself of the characters, and the obtacles that they have to overcome are really torturing themselves in their way to live. The Gypsy family is really a "free" one, and the members of the family can not live behind walls. That is the reason why the scene in the camp is so heartbreaking. The fact that, during this scene, the character of Taloche (played by James Thiérrée) is silently and sadly looking at the outside through the barbed wire while another gypsy is screaming like a litany "I want to be free" is really representative of this idea of heartbreaking. We have the same idea in another scene, when the character of the mayor is giving the Gypsy family a house to prevent them from being persecuted : in this scene, Taloche do not understand why they can not go back to their life on the road, and we can see all the despair in his eyes, especially when his own family has to force him to enter in the house, before closing the door behind him. The spectator himself can understand the sorrow of Taloche by looking at the scenes during this character express his desire of liberty. We can see it during the scene at the town hall, in which Taloche "free the water" by the fact of opening the faucet until the water is falling as a waterfall in the stairs. The scenes in which Taloche is dancing or running alone in the forest are also representatives of this desire of liberty, but during one of these scenes, Taloche discovers something that reminds us about the sad fate of the Romani people... Anyways, "Liberté" is a very good movie, showing the reality of a part of our story, and with a strong philosophical message. A poignant film with great actors and that must be seen ! Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review Audience Member Beautifully done film. Should be seen by aa wider audience. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Audience Member Fascinating International drama about a Gypsy family traveling in France during World War II.....and when you get past the quirkiness and subtitles , this becomes an interesting drama. 3 Stars Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/10/23 Full Review thomas a "Korkoro" shows a resilient and cheerful faces of a Gypsy family in times of war...Among all the persecuted minorities in Nazi occupation, the Nazi Germany had the most lenient approach towards the Gypsies: all they had to do in order to avoid imprisonment in concentration camp was to reside in a house (as opposed to wandering around the country). But as is seen in this historical drama, residing in a house for a prolonged time isn't what they really wanted. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A Gypsy family tries to stay free from the Nazis while traveling through France.
Director
Tony Gatlif
Producer
Tony Gatlif
Screenwriter
Tony Gatlif
Production Co
Princes Films, Rhône-Alpes Cinéma, France 3 Cinéma
Genre
Drama, Comedy
Original Language
French (France)
Release Date (Streaming)
Jun 20, 2012
Box Office (Gross USA)
$8.2K
Runtime
1h 51m
Aspect Ratio
Scope (2.35:1)
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