Mondo – Part 1 of 8
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The title character in this film, Mondo, is a Gypsy boy of eleven or twelve who lives in the streets of Nice, in southern France. As he wanders around flashing a winning smile and asking strangers if they would like to adopt him, we meet other people of the streets and see how they live from day to day.
This film does not have the tragic power of Pixote or Salaam Bombay but don’t let its lyrical pace and occasionally overt sentimentality fool you. It’s not all gloom and doom in the streets – anyone who has worked with street children will agree that there are many who have the same charm and vivacity as Mondo, children whose absolute poverty seems not to have destroyed their innocence but to have intensified it.
Yet like Pixote and Salaam Bombay this film is also a tragedy though not so much a tragedy for Mondo as for the society in which he lives. It shows how even in the most developed countries we have not developed adequate institutional means of caring for children such as Mondo and so we lose them, and the loss is ours, not theirs.
Mondo is one of a trilogy of films of Gypsy life directed by Tony Gatlif. Ovidiu Balan, who plays Mondo in this film, also appears briefly in another film in the trilogy, aged about 15.
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seems easier to buy a VCR than find a DVD copy…
This is absoultly briliant and very moving!
Thanks so much for uploading this. Like someone else said, I’ve been looking for a DVD but to no avail…
this a wonderful film, thx for posting it
Hey man, I’m so glad to have met another Tony Gatlif fan.I want to make a request. I’ve been looking for the DVD of Gadjo Dilo for years now and have had no luck. Do you by any chance have it ? If so could you please upload it ?
Wow… Thanks a lot mbatang! This film’s so sensible, so sensitive and crammed with emotion… The city’s magnificient, the little bloke’s just enchanting… everything’s fascinating about this film… thanks a lot for posting it!
I LOVE this film – I saw it on TV one night years ago, and was absolutely enchanted. I’ve been trying to buy the film Mondo ever since, but it doesn’t seem to come on DVD, and I don’t even have a video player, so I can’t get it…has anyone got it on DVD or knows where to find it? I’ve gotta have it.
It doesn’t come on dvd and even on vhs it’s hard to find. Sorry.
Yeah, I know, you can buy the video online, off of places like Amazon. But if someone had the video and had copied it ONTO DVD, they could upload it to Pirate Bay or Mininova or something.
yes
Isn’t this film directed by Tony Gatlif ?
created to a seperate playlist
‘Mondo’ is based on a short story by J.M.G. Le Clezio. Mondo, a gypsy, brings out the best in people. Mondo’s friends are: street magician and acrobat living with a Turkish Kurd singer, a lone elderly jetty fisherman who talks of the sea and teaches Mondo how to read, a man Mondo calls ‘Dadi’ – a homeless Scotsman with an aristocratic background, and an old woman named Thi Chin – the widow of an executed political radical.
Another film for my list.
Added to playlist.
Thank you for finding this film.