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The Underground Orchestra(Het ondergrondse orkest)

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Netherlands · 1998
1h 48m
Director Heddy Honigmann
Starring
Genre Documentary, Music, Reality

A moving documentary profile of immigrant musicians who play the sidewalks and the Metro of Paris. An Argentine pianist, Romanian father and son violinists, a Venezuelan harpist, and singers from Mali and Vietnam—all united by their experiences with political repression, their courage to flee, and their love of—and dependence on—music.

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Chicago Reader by Ted Shen

Honigmann assembles a mosaic of the postcolonial diaspora that populates the crowded ethnic enclaves of Paris, and the emotional, lovingly captured songs seem to turn the City of Light into a bazaar of world music.

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San Francisco Examiner by Wesley Morris

At its best the film serves as a music appreciation class taught by embattled artists whose cloudy livelihoods grow increasingly uncertain with each bittersweet symphony.