The story performs at the seaside of Nice, France. One day a young vagrant kid was just there - the beautiful gypsy boy with the amazing smile, courteously asking people on the street: 'Would you like to adopt me?'. A 10 years-old-boy should have had some direction along the way, he never steals but applies an impressive attractiveness to get food and win friends. Bright-eyed and wily, Mondo runs in fear when asked his age, address, or family. He has no answers to these simple questions. He is independent, happy, and does what he likes, with nobody pushing him what to do. The film's apparentness may seem to be flat on the plot, but it is not as simple as it seems. If watching carefully it has a lot hidden below the surface.
11-year-old Romanian gypsy Ovidiu Balan, playing a homeless Gypsy boy, made this movie worth seeing. The movie itself is visually sensational, it's more documentary than anything, it has very little dialogue....and maybe that's a good thing.
'Mondo' reminds the value of appreciation of the world around us for what it is, tidy of prepossessions or apathy.
6/6/20
Mondo 1995 film - french language
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2 comments:
Thank you for this movie. Can you add German subs?
I'll do soon more subs
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