Gypo (DVD) Reviews

As a lesbian movie Gypo is a cut above the rest. It's delicate handling of the lesbian love story and the believable chemistry between the leads makes this movie memorably It's confrontation of the British publics suspicion of foreigners is managed authentically but without criticism The movie photography could have been ...

Asylum and immigration is the emotive issue of the decade in the UK and the more the government ignores it the more problems we will have, be it that irrational bigotry, or crime, terrorism and a shortage of housing stick from the side of the coin. Only last week did we see how our irrational urge to take on the unfiltered sick, poor and the ...

Gypo (2005) (“One of the finest British films of the year” – Edinburgh Film Festival) After several months of trying to find Gypo either showing at a cinema, or on DVD, it finally came up on our Lovefilm.com DVD rental list. I was really pleased, and surprised, to find it there as it isn’t the usual type of film as it is ...

Gypo is the first ever officially sanctioned British Dogme film. I say that as to actually find a Dogme film from anywhere outside Scandanavia is rare so to get their permission and get sanctioned is quite an achievement. It is a hard hitting look at the lives of two families in Margate, one British and the other Czech refugees. How ...