Transylvania (film)
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| Directed by | Tony Gatlif |
| Written by | Tony Gatlif |
| Produced by | Frank Mancuso Jr. Tara L. Craig |
| Starring | Asia Argento Amira Casar Birol Ünel Alexandra Beaujard Marco Castoldi |
| Cinematography | Céline Bozon |
| Edited by | Monique Dartonne |
| Music by | Tony Gatlif Delphine Mantoulet |
| Distributed by | Peccadillo Pictures (UK) |
Release dates | Cannes May 28, 2006 United Kingdom August 10, 2007 |
Running time | 103 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Languages | 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
- Asia Argento as Zingarina
- Amira Casar as Marie
- Birol Ünel as Tchangalo
- Alexandra Beaujard as Luminitsa
- Marco Castoldi as Milan Agustin
- Bea Palya as La chanteuse du cabaret (as Beáta Palya)
- Rares Budileanu as Le jeune musicien
- Gabor as Gabor, le paysan au traîneau
References
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Transylvania". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-12-18.