Cinema: TRANSYLVANIA

Directed by Tony Gatlif. At selected cinemas, cert 15A.

After the controversy surrounding the deportation of the Roma community camped at Dublin’s M50 roundabout, the release of Tony Gatlif’s film, Transylvania, seems particularly prescient.

Following the story of a young Italian woman who finds herself seduced and then abandoned by a Romanian musician, it presents an intimate evocation of gypsy culture, shaped as it is by a peripatetic lifestyle and a terrifying landscape ...