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  • 1999
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 48 m
  • 1999
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 48 m
Het ondergrondse orkest

Summary Heddy Honigmann's Dutch-financed documentary highlights the plight of several itinerant musicians, mostly political refugees or illegal immigrants, who play their music on the Paris sidewalks and in the metro. Their music serves as a link to their homelands as a way to console themselves in their current condition.

Directed By: Heddy Honigmann

Written By: Nosh van der Lely, Heddy Honigmann

  • 1999
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 48 m
  • 1999
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 48 m

Het ondergrondse orkest

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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Summary Heddy Honigmann's Dutch-financed documentary highlights the plight of several itinerant musicians, mostly political refugees or illegal immigrants, who play their music on the Paris sidewalks and in the metro. Their music serves as a link to their homelands as a way to console themselves in their current condition.

Directed By: Heddy Honigmann

Written By: Nosh van der Lely, Heddy Honigmann

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Has an odd mix of quickly grabbed handheld shots and scenes of striking beauty.
By Peter Stack FULL REVIEW
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Honigmann assembles a mosaic of the postcolonial diaspora that populates the crowded ethnic enclaves of Paris, and the emotional, lovingly captured songs seem to turn the City of Light into a bazaar of world music.
By Ted Shen FULL REVIEW
70
Thoughtful look at the itinerant street musicians of Paris.
By Ken Fox FULL REVIEW
70
A world-beat city symphony.
By J. Hoberman FULL REVIEW
63
At its best the film serves as a music appreciation class taught by embattled artists whose cloudy livelihoods grow increasingly uncertain with each bittersweet symphony.
By Wesley Morris FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Pieter Van Huystee Film and Television
Release Date Sep 24, 1999
Duration 1 h 48 m
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Awards

Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Nederlands Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Vancouver International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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