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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.… Expand

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  1. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Peter Stack
    100
    Has an odd mix of quickly grabbed handheld shots and scenes of striking beauty.
  2. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Ted Shen
    80
    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.
  3. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: J. Hoberman
    70
    A world-beat city symphony.
  4. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    70
    Thoughtful look at the itinerant street musicians of Paris.

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