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    Latcho Drom - Safe Journey

    Latcho Drom - Safe Journey

    Coastside Film Society

    January 12, 2007

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    A celebration of gypsy music from a French director with Rom (gypsy) roots. The movie traces the Rom people from their ancestral home in India through Egypt, Turkey and up into Europe. This documentary uses no narration, preferring to let the pictures and the music speak for themselves. Via song and dance, young and old celebrate, embody, and teach the cultural values of family, journey, love, separateness, and persecution. The movie reveals how the sad and fiery Rom music becomes laced with elements of whatever culture the musicians find themselves living in. In India the music is light and romantic. In Egypt it absorbs elements from Muslin prayer. Southern France provides us with the wild Romani jazz popularized by Django Reinhardt. In Romania and Germany the music turns darker, reflecting the harsh treatment Rom's have long encountered here.

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      Tickets: $6

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      Dates:
      January 12, 2007

      Times:
      8pm

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