Mondo (film)

Mondo is a 1995 French drama film written and directed by Tony Gatlif based upon the short story by JeanMarie G. Le Clezio. The film debuted at the Unifrance French Film Festival in Japan 1995, and premiered in France April 17, 1996.

The movie follows an orphan boy surviving in Nice through the kindness of strangers and his own ingenuity. One day Mondo Ovidiu Balan appears on the streets of Nice. He has no family, no possessions, no schooling, but shares a brilliant smile and good spirit. Being more at home in the citys gardens, fields, and seashore, the bustle of the city seems to overwhelm him. He has good survival instincts, avoiding police and threatening adults in his search for a family.Gatlifs earlier film Latcho Drom presented a romantic portrait of Gypsy music and culture. He brings the same sensibility to this lyrical Mondo, a sadeyed image of the universal outsider, Frances most unwanted. Mondo is described to be visually reminding one of those rare days when the world used to sparkle as though it were brand new, set in the streets and docks of the French port city of Nice. ........

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