"I, my family and Roma Woody Allen" is a fine documentary, narrated in first person, from the nineteen director Laura Halilovic.
Laura is the only daughter of the family Halilovic, a Roma family from Italy arrived in Bosnia in the sixties. His narrative voice, which accompanies every scene in the film, sometimes clarifying the meaning, other times by making an ironic counterpoint, talks about its history and the history of his family. Laura
confident once his precocious love of cinema: in nine years even falls in love with the "voice of a cartoon" Woody Allen and dreams of becoming a director soon. Dear Woody: so begins the letter to his favorite film, which is a bit 'as the message in a bottle given to the currents of the sea. She herself says the skeptical possibility a response to Allen, when his little hole to check the letters. The meet, however, on the red carpet in Venice, Woody is approaching, you can not talk, he takes the pen of Laura, signs an autograph and he goes ... with the pen of Laura! (Ciack! could be a scene in Woody Allen! ").
Even if Woody Allen did not take baptism this brilliant director, proudly ROM, luck, quite deservedly, has said, his first feature film went on RAI 3 and has received several awards.
return to the story ...
Laura follows the difficult transition of his family life in the fields to that in a council house in Turin, with parents who, accustomed to outdoor life, struggling to get used to, as oppressed by the four walls of an apartment.
His mother told the director in his speech after the screening, to overcome the sense of claustrophobia, he was initially out of the house all day!
This event, therefore, it is as if marked a caesura in his life: childhood, in the field, in close contact with his community and, then, life in the apartment. A break in some ways difficult to overcome: his uncles and grandmother, in fact, still live in a field, constantly threatened with eviction (curious, because the land on which the field is owned by the uncle!). In the documentary
the difficulties of relations with Gage (as they are called all the people who are not Roma) accompany Laura from childhood: his entry into primary school, in fact, suffered traumatic: "We just needed a gypsy!" is one of first comments it receives. At school, staring at the window, missing, and leaving in tears ran into the arms of his mother.
In his speech, after the screening, said Laura has a bad history, which does no credit to our tradition in 'Inclusive education: in his elementary school, he said, had formed a kind of "special classes" for her and her peers Roma
... Still, his desire to integrate is palpable in his Italian good (despite having attended school only until the eighth grade), in his clothes in his life choices. Yes, these are very important: Laura, on several occasions, in documentary is being urged by his father and mother to marry, in the tradition of the Roma, in fact, it is normal to marry at 15-16 years ... 18 years (his age when The documentary was filmed) is likely to be too old!
Thus the life of Laura seems like a balance between 'Italian' hard-won price (say, however, did not feel completely accepted and refers to the fact that despite being born in Italy has Italian nationality) and a proud claim to their Roma roots, which she reveals.
Before the comment of a person in the room, asking how it feels to move away from its tradition of Laura, I would answer for him: "Blessed are the hybrids and mixtures."
Yes, that's that mixture that does not want the Roma tradition, at least for females: males, in fact, can marry the gage, which are accepted in the community, but the reverse is not allowed and will be punished with ostracism.
But Laura, whilst rejecting the marriage, the director wanted to do! A 'hard to convince the parent company ...
Only when his film is passed to the RAI and the father saw the Laura's name in the credits scroll, he realized that he was proud of her and would not have prevented ...
His desire to make the film, however, is not a habit as a teenager.
surprising because the seriousness of his motives:
"My passion for directing was born when I was nine years old ... I want to make a documentary on the Roma to let others know about our lives. The Roma, or as they are called a derogatory tone, the Gypsies, the majority live in the homes, their children go to school, contrary to what everyone thinks, only by turning some of them still live as they once did. There have been films and documentaries about their customs, their way of life, but nothing that they can really identify with. The directors and writers have ideas with the world of the Roma still very stereotypical. "
Brava Laura, continues to tell us about you and your people!
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