HCMC – Cine Cage #02

Wed 11 Mar, 7pm
The Cage, HCMC

VENGO by Tony Gatlif (Music cycle)

First of all Vengo is a shrieking, a singing, an hymn to Life, to Love, to the mourning, to the world of honour. An Hymn to the Mediterranean sea.

Tony Gatlif

Through a vendetta story, Vengo, explores by image and music the deep roots of Spanish Gypsie ‘flamenco puro’. A raw film played by real people and musicians and sustained by powerful shots : wild eyes, hand in hand, all night long dancing scenes..

Caco is a proud, handsome man, head of a family, and very powerful in the local community. Yet he has been torn to pieces by the death of his beloved daughter. He constantly visits her grave, weeps silently at her photo and has transferred all his wildly protective love and attention onto his mentally challenged nephew, Diego. It seems that Diego’s father, Caco’s brother, is in hiding after having killed a man from the Caravaca family, who are equally powerful in the community. They are looking for vengeance and have come to Caco for justice. When he refuses to betray his brother, the Caravacas grow impatient. When they realize they are getting nowhere, they threaten to kill Diego. Despite his fierce pride, Caco eventually realizes that the cycle of killing and revenge must be broken. But how can he achieve this and protect everyone he loves?

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With Antonio Canales (Caco) -Orestes Villasan Rodriguez (Diego) -Antonio Perez Dechent (Primo Alejandro) -BobotePrimo (Antonio) -Juan Luis Corrientes (Primo Tres) -Frenando Guerrero Rebollo (Fernando Caravaca) -Frabcisco Chavero Rios (Francisco Caravaca) -Jose Ramirez El Cheli,Juan Luis Barrios Llorente,Jesus Maria Ventura,Pepe Sardina (Primos Caravaca) -El Moro (Pepe Sardina) -Manuel Vega Salazar (Anselmo) -Maria Faraco (La Catalana) -Natasha Mayghine (Alma) -Maria Altea Maya et Tomatito Sheikh Ahmad Al Tuni La Caita Gritos de Guerra Remedios Silva Pisa La Paquera de Jerez (La Coneja).

Cine-Cage, a weekly ‘rendez-vous’ for all movie-goers, every Wednesday at 7pm, only at Cage.
ALL FILMS SCREENED IN ORIGINAL VERSION WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES.