"'I wanted to buy a horse that would take me to places not easily reached by men.' This romantic impulse leads director/protagonist Stavros Tornes to the mysterious gypsy horse-dealers of Northern Greece and into a fantastic odyssey through time and space, haunted by the gypsy leader in various guises. Visionary and mystical, certainly, yet also surprisingly concrete in its sense of place, and even ironic as the wanderer returns to the present, Balamos is a unique achievement."-Ian Christie, National Film Theater, London