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| Director: Emir Kusturica
Actors: Davor Dujmovic, Bora Todorovic, Ljubica Adzovic, Husnija Hasimovic, Sinolicka Trpkova
Studio: Sony Pictures
Buy New: $117.86
New (3) Used (9) from $21.36
Rating:  28 reviews
Sales Rank: 11020
Format: Color, Subtitled, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Italian (Original Language), Serbo-croatian (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 136 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 6301763300
UPC: 043396503038
EAN: 9786301763301
ASIN: 6301763300
Theatrical Release Date: February 9, 1990
Release Date: February 21, 1995
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Condition: BRAND NEW IN FACTORY-SHRINKWRAP. Shrinkwrap has a small tear on one corner. Ships immediately with tracking.
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| Customer Reviews:
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Sublime April 21, 2003
joshua chapman (Roanoke, VA)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
The first great film from the greatest living European director. Underground may be a more weighty work, but this is a deeply felt and beautiful movie. The acting is great, the music superb and the art direction grotesque and masterful. It is a fairy tale, an ethnography, a comic caper and a work of neorealism. It succeeds at each level.
If one needs more evidence that this is a vapid and vile age, please note that this, one of the great masterworks of recent world cinema, is available only on VHS, while that Silent Bob releases on DVD interviews in which he pontificates away.
 Been there... April 20, 2001
darragh o'donoghue (dublin, ireland)
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
'Time of the gypsies' is a big, full movie. It is full in the way a magic realism novel is full, with its inter-generational cast of characters; its vivid community life, where private is always public, and where the elements lash and squelch; where joy and tragedy co-exist; where magic, dream and delusion are fruitfully indistinguishable. It is full in the Fellini sense, with its grand set pieces; its profusion of grotesques; its bursting compression of many plots; its general noisiness. it is one film containing many simultaneous films (a gangster film; a surreal road movie; a romantic comedy; a rites-of-passage; a Christian allegory). It somehow feels a little thin, like a tapestry of chunks from a massive novel. it is certainly an example of retrospective dating - at the time it seemed a masterpiece; over a decade on, it's pastiche Kusturica.
maybe my favorite movie. February 1, 2002
Juan Pablo (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
9 out of 12 found this review helpful
First of all, I'm not a reviewer, I don't believe in deep or intelligent reviews but in feelings or sensations caused by a specific movie to a particular person.
I first time saw this movie when I was no more than 14 years old. I saw it with my parents, and to be honest, I wasn't very excited at the moment... but ten minutes later I was unable to take away my eyes and mind from the screen. This film made me cry, laugh, think and then cry again. It made a point of change, It taught me WHAT I want from a movie, and it showed me that this kind of movie is unfortunately rare.
Magical realism January 27, 2000
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This film blends real-life heartache and squalor with a poetic dream world. In spite of its many surreal touches, Time of the Gypsies seemed an accurate depiction of the social fabric and sense of economic desperation that characterize Rom life in numerous countries. When beauty, magic, and love exist in these circumstances, they are powerful forces indeed. This film gives us a painfully hard look at world of the gypsies we have scorned and romanticized: we know that our fascination is justified. To have entered their world is a rare privilege, and a real trip. (I too was shocked to read Matlin's lukewarm review.)
Must see - a rare movie November 24, 2005
Mannina Magha (Traveller)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is one of the movies which you have never heard of, will never probably hear about. Wonder what would have brought you here to read this review.
I saw this movie, when I was flipping channels in Hotel in Toronto in 2003 - the movie started on a slow note, but the various turns it took for the poor little boy Pehran was very saddening and makes your heart heavy at the end of the movie.
The movie captures the essence of gypsy living - their desire to settle down, the dreams in big cities, their local heroes and their family(?) life.
Excellent sound tracks and videography - I can still remember the lake in one of the moview scenes
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