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Freedom(Korkoro)

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France · 2009
1h 51m
Director Tony Gatlif
Starring Marc Lavoine, James Thiérrée, Mathias Laliberté, Marie-Josée Croze
Genre Drama

In this passionate WWII drama, a tightly-knit family of Gypsies journeys through occupied France, trying to avoid the violent Vichy patrols. Along the way, a young French orphan named Claude joins their ranks and is initiated into their culture. Under the tutelage of acrobatic wild man Taloche, Claude learns to love his adoptive family.

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Time Out by Eric Hynes

Even as it stands as a cinematic monument to mass suffering, Korkoro can't help but swing, strum and celebrate life for as long as it lasts.

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Village Voice by Nick Schager

The plotting is two-dimensional, but in the tormented visage of Taloche (James Thiérrée)-a clichéd holy simpleton enlivened by irrepressible physicality-the film seethes with full-bodied fury and anguish.

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The New York Times by Rachel Saltz

Korkoro (the word means freedom in Romani) has an unexpectedly leisurely quality as it shows the texture of Gypsy life - the music-making, the intense bonds with horses and the natural world - and its awkward fit with modernity.

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NPR by Scott Tobias

The only character who stands out is a relentlessly clowning man-child named Taloche (James Thierree), but only as a symbol for the irrepressible spirit of an entire people.

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