Mondo – Part 6 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, more than 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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This is just an absoultly brilliant movie!
and the boy is just a fantastic actor i actually found myself hugging the monitor at one stage!!!
Alot of movies made by studio ghilblis is absoulty stunning and most are just as moving as this!
guys check out studio ghiblis ‘ki kis delivery service’
its another ‘make your day feel good kind of movie’
its a japanese animatioon made by the makers of ‘spirted away’ trust me you’ll love it!
i’m not sure if its been uploaded on youtube but check out the trailer or somit anyways
studio ghiblis cheaper on dvd these days than they used to be☆
this film has made my day
just when i started to beileive everyone in the world was a bitch *apoligies*
beacause now i understand innocence it really exsists
even to all the people mondo meets
its truly shown me how buitiful life can be
i dont think anyone could live a better life than this kids.
innocence, adventure and freinds WOW perfect
beautyful!
Nice history
craigowl