Ange

“I wanted to make a film full of contradictions and provocations. To show a path that leads from one celebration to the next. A simple story, like a common thread. A man travels with his daughter, who reminds him of his past. And this past also reminds him of his cowardice, because he simply disappeared for several years. But Ange lives neither in the future nor in the past. He lives in the present. In the moment. At the same time, however, also in the memory of a people and a music. The past constantly accompanies him.

Due to his profession, he lives among phantoms. Ange’s baggage is the philosophy of the Roma. They live only in the present; they have no past because they didn’t want one. And they have no future, because they don’t want one. Ange has adopted this way of life, although he himself is not a Roma. But like them, he sets out to accomplish a simple thing: he wants to find a friend he has lost contact with and to whom he owes money. On his journey, he immerses himself in Roma culture, because that is the only thing he likes about the world today.”

Tony Gatlif