Transylvania (2006)

Okay, I've gotta admit I've been a little negligent with my dear blog, but fisrt you've got to understand that it's been a crazy week for me, with essays to deliever and documents to oficialize. Anyway, let's go right to business! And finally, here it is, my favorite Tony Gatlif movie: Transylvania!

Transylvania (2006) - ****

When this movie came out I didn't know anything about it, I didn't know the director, the actors (can you believe I didn't really know Asia Argento? Yeah, I know!), and for all that I cared it could even be a vampire movie. Such prejudice! I should've known better. Having said all that I must admit that I didn't watch transylvania at the show. And I don't know what surge came over me that made me look for it. Maybe it was the excellent reviews the movie received here in Brazil, who knows?

But the thing is, Transylvania is an incredible movie with such power and passion you'll feel changed afterwards. The movie starts with a pregnant Zingarina (Asia argento), accompanied her friend Marie (Amira Casar), searching for her deported lover, a musician named Milan (Marco Castoldi) who lives in Transylvania. That's the starting point of the film, but the movie really takes its course after the encounter.

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After being heartbroken by the musician Zingarina leaves her friend and her past and goes throught a soul searching journey. She feels abandoned and cursed, and along this journey she joins Tchangalo (Birol Ünel), and starts living on the road, and being taken as a gypsy for everyone else, including him.

The gypsy music (Gatlif's trade mark) will take along on a journey full of humanity, where human beings just wanna find love and human conection. And much of this intensity comes from Argento's perfomance! Undoubtedly her best one, very emotional, and not at all superficial. She'll take along with her frustation, her pain, and eventually her passion for simply being alive! This is one of those movies I strongly recommend, for it is one of those I won't ever get tired of (re)watching!

So, it's a wrap! And I'll be back with another review ASAP!