1970 · comedy · documentary
The Clowns
Directed by Federico Fellini1h 33m1970
Fellini exposes his great attraction for the clowns and the world of the circus first recalling a childhood experience when the circus arrives nearby his home. Then he joins his crew and travel from Italy to Paris chasing the last greatest European clowns still live in these countries. He also meets Anita Ekberg trying to buy a panther in a circus.
Our read: The Clowns (1970) reads as a warm, kinetic, surreal comedy · documentary entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Warm, kinetic, measured comedy / documentary, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- inventive
- intimate
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